
Ep 55 - Shakespeare's Comedies
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Shakespeare's Animals
The idea of sympathy sympathy with the animals was not merely a cerebral or hypothetical one but Darren oldridge in his strange histories shows that this idea actually impacted the world in a tangible way for instance in renaissance england pigs could be put on trial for treason they could be hung for treason. Addison Roberts explicitly arouses the idea that to speculate about animals is to understand the human self so we go down to the playhouse to see a comedy and in doing so we are confronted with a mirror of ourselves distorted but accurateWe see ourselves in another whether that's a man understanding who he is by the reflection of a woman or whether it's by virtue of our contemplating the animal world the fairy world.
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