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Slices of Shakespeare

Slices of Shakespeare

著者： Professor Andy Lawrence
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Join Professor Andy Lawrence to explore famous lines and phrases from Shakespeare.

Each episode Andy will take a quote, get some acting chums together, and perform the scene that the quote comes from. Before the scene, he will explain the context so we understand what we are listening to, and afterwards he will bring along a friendly pundit or actor to talk about the scene, the play, and Shakespeare more generally.

In his day job, Andy is the Regius Professor of Astronomy, but he has always loved Shakespeare. He is keen to share the love, but also to get some help decoding the sometimes mysterious Elizabethan English.

The music used is an extract from "Suite de Voltes", part of "Dances from Terpsichore" by Michael Praetorius, 1612. The arrangement is by Jon Sayles, who also performs the parts. Many wonderful pieces played by Jon Sayles are available at http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/EarlyMusic.htm

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  • The Fault, dear Brutus, is not in our Stars

    The Fault, dear Brutus, is not in our Stars
    2026/10/16

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    In this episode we explore one of Andy's favourite quotes. It sounds like it's about Astronomy - but its not. Its about seizing control of your own destiny. The quote is from Julius Caesar, and is spoken by Cassius, who is scornful of Caesar, and is trying to persuade Brutus to join the conspirators who will assassinate him. It's gripping stuff and full of themes that resonate today. To explore these themes, Andy is joined by Director and playwright Justin Greene. Performing the scene we have Eric Brennan as Brutus, and Andy as Cassius.

    Justin Greene is perhaps best known for the hit musical "Spend Spend Spend", but early in his career he wrote an eerily prescient play called "Trump". The classic book he refers to near the end of the duscussion is "Shakespeare our Contemporary", by Jan Kott, published by W.W.Norton and Company, 1974.

    The scene that contains the quote is from Act I Scene 2 of Julius Caesar. You can find the text at Open Source Shakespeare: https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=juliuscaesar&Act=1&Scene=2&Scope=scene
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    34 分
  • The World's Mine Oyster

    The World's Mine Oyster
    2026/10/16

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    In this opening episode we look at a familiar everyday phrase. We think we know what it means today - but it's not what Shakespeare meant when he wrote it! The quote is from The Merry Wives of Windsor, a play about the infamous rogue Falstaff getting his come-uppance. Joining Andy to chat about about the play, and how this quote reversed its meaning, is the well known Shakespeare scholar Dr Emma Smith, from the University of Oxford. The performers today are Michael Flett, Rachel Bhandari, and Andy himself.

    Emma Smith's most popular book is "This is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Most Famous Playwright", published by Pelican.

    The artwork shows Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, from the cover of a Victorian magazine called The Sketch, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 489, June 11, 1902. Sourced from wikimedia, provided by the London Stereoscopic Company.

    You can read the scene our quote comes from - Act II Scene 2 of the Merry Wives of Windsor - at

    https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=merrywives&Act=2&Scene=2&Scope=scene
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    35 分
  • Welcome to Slices of Shakespeare

    Welcome to Slices of Shakespeare
    2026/10/14

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    In this short introduction Andy explains his love of Shakespeare, and his plan for this podcast - half hour episodes introducing a famous quote, performing a short scene, and exploring the quote, the scene and the play with a guest. Less than a whole play, but more than just fragment - a slice of Shakespeare.

    The artwork shows the portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout, from the title page of the First Folio, 1623. Image from wikimedia, courtesy of the Elizabethan Club and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.

    First proper episode due in a couple of days - "The World is Mine Oyster"
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    5 分
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