“Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.” Meet William McGonagall, the worst poet in the English language, and his exquisite Address to Shakespeare. You can listen to the…… Read more ““I would the gods had made thee poetical”: An Address to Shakespeare”
Month: July 2018
Ben Jonson on Shakespeare (1623)
If you’ve listened to episode 6 of the podcast, you’ll be interested to read this poem from the prefatory notes to the First Folio of Shakespeare’s works,…… Read more “Ben Jonson on Shakespeare (1623)”
Episode 006: Who wrote Shakespeare? The Authorship Question
“The fraud of men was ever so / Since summer first was leafy” — Balthasar’s song, Much Ado About Nothing In episode six, we look at that…… Read more “Episode 006: Who wrote Shakespeare? The Authorship Question”
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