Shakespeare's First Play

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There's a dream in which William Shakespeare is reciting one of his plays. Game of Wouldn't put that in here if it wasn't, like he wouldn't go to the trouble of quoting an actual play without. So there you go. That was before he made his deal with Lord Morpheus. And yeah, it is one of his earliest potential plays ever. But Hobbes is having a good time. A hundred years later, he's all messed up. He says death is a mug's game I got so much to live for. The episode airs at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO.

Welcome to our newest show-within-a-show! We're working our way through Neil Gaiman's signature graphic novel series THE SANDMAN. Some Patreon supporters get these episodes monthly, but every two months we'll combine them for general consumption.

In Episode 1, we do some table-setting on the series, and Gaiman -- then we dive into the first trade paperback Preludes & Nocturnes, which introduces Dream and his whole deal over the first 8 issues.

In Episode 2, we dig into the second book The Doll's House (which actually came out first). Dream is on the hunt to track down some rogue underlings, and a woman named Rose learns a lot about her family. Also there's a Cereal Convention!

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