Today we put on our teacher hats and model the kind of thinking we ask our students to do. After a four-year hiatus, we return to Thomas Kyd’s ur-revenge tragedy that started them all, The Spanish Tragedy, to discuss how the F*ck we’re supposed to unpack it for 21st century learners. Jess starts with examining the difference between revenge and justice which, though nebulous, proved an easier topic to broach with her students than the concept of dumb shows and masques. Um…they don’t talk? There are masks and sometimes dancing? (There’s more to it than that, but you’ll need to listen to catch it all!)
Here’s what we featured in our Happy Hour segment:
Aubrey’s rec: WFA (Women’s Football Alliance- professional tackle football!) look up your nearest team! PLAY SOME FOOTBALL.
Jess’s rec: Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters and the wholesome joy that is Ted Lasso
Here’s what we featured in our ShakesBubble Gossip segments:
RSC’s first-ever disabled actor playing R3
RSC’s 37 plays initiative
White People in Shakespeare book out this fall
Fatal Throne novellas
Theatre J’s Expanding the Canon project
Also that nonsense in American Conservative, but we refuse to link to it.
