shakespearean

What do we known about William Shakespeare the man? And why are his works still popular today? Who was Billy Shakes? We dive into the legacy of the English language's most important author this week, examine the claims that Shakespeare didn't actually write all that is attributed to him, learn a lot about the time and place he lived in, and so much more in this literary (and kind of true crime?) edition of Timesuck.  Also - go get those street team stickers! And watch my new special August 27th on Youtube. 

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Welcome back listeners on today's podcast I had the pleasure of chatting with Robert Boog.
He is a Calfornia Real Estate Broker and owns a company based in Valencia.
A husband and father of two, he keeps himself busy with projects such as writing books and songs.
 
One of his latest pieces titled Shakey's Madness explores the possibility that Shakespeare didn't actually exist and instead was a pen name as the work might indicate that he was bipolar!
Learn a little bit more about this topic and Robert as we explore in a little more detail the context behind the speculations.

Also, make sure to check out the links below for some of the other work by Robert including a tribute song that he wrote dedicated to the late great Kobe Bryant.

HELPFUL LINKS
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Shakey's Madness Book on Amazon

Robert Boog Website

Robert Boog Songs on Reverb Nation

Robert Boog YouTube Channel

Tom Stoppard and William Shakespeare loom large in the canon of English drama. Two new books explore their lives, their work, their driving forces and their impact on theatre.

Tom Stoppard and William Shakespeare loom large in the canon of English drama. Two new books explore their lives, their work, their driving forces and their impact on theatre.

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.”

That was Rev. Martin Luther King’s appeal to work as soulcraft in his 1967 “Street Sweeper” speech at New Covenant Baptist Church in Chicago.

All too often, it seems like those words are something close to blasphemy to Leftist elites who invoke his name while seeking to expunge from history those names King called forth.

Shakespeare—invoked by MLK—has today been dropped by Yale as required reading for English Literature majors. And Yale is by no means alone.

King argued the purpose of education was to, “teach one to think intensively and think critically.”

Today, the politicized professoriate would rather students not think for themselves at all.

It’s a Shakespearean tragedy for black and white alike that so few of today’s students do.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.”

That was Rev. Martin Luther King’s appeal to work as soulcraft in his 1967 “Street Sweeper” speech at New Covenant Baptist Church in Chicago.

All too often, it seems like those words are something close to blasphemy to Leftist elites who invoke his name while seeking to expunge from history those names King called forth.

Shakespeare—invoked by MLK—has today been dropped by Yale as required reading for English Literature majors. And Yale is by no means alone.

King argued the purpose of education was to, “teach one to think intensively and think critically.”

Today, the politicized professoriate would rather students not think for themselves at all.

It’s a Shakespearean tragedy for black and white alike that so few of today’s students do.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.