
Ep 55 - Shakespeare's Comedies
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Shakespeare's Midsummer Night Stream
"There is a little dash of escapism for one of a better word there is a sprinkling of magic. There is a sense of my returning to childhood to a state of wonder and you'll see in Shakespeare's plays that you have punning on the idea of wandering through the woods" "I cannot help but think that ultimately these works defy critique and resist interpretation and invite only unreserved appreciation how is one supposed to respond to Oberon in a mid-summer night stream when he says i know a bank where the wild time blows?" 'We've all been in love with an ass comedy is a rippling reflection in a bubbling brookUltimately this conversation only scratches
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