We're Still Obsessed with Shakespeare w/ Abigail Thorn
Induction
The Importance of Humour in Shakespeare
Sam and Jen are really good characters for anyone who is a bit skeptical of Shakespeare as a thing to go and spend your evening watching. The first sort of three or four pages are like solid, I'm a big pentameter and deliberately so that it's like quite dense, very heavy. And then Henry IV comes on and he's giving his big speech,. all these names and campaigns and it's all in Shakespeare language. There was even a moment where we did the where we watched the film version in the cinema and my agent Dave, Dave from from standard, was sitting next to me with his wife Julia (Julia) They work as a really good kind of at times, a
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