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Shakespeare's life lessons

What does Shakespeare teach us about the ethics of war, about friendships or domestic violence and the power dynamics in a home?

Friendship, domestic violence and power dynamics in the home, or debates about the ethics of war - these are all topics we can find in the dramas of Shakespeare. Scholars Emma Smith, Patrick Gray and Emma Whipday share insights from their research with Lisa Mullen.

Professor Emma Smith is the author of This is Shakespeare now out in paperback. She has presented the Radio 3 Documentary First Folio Road Trip /programmes/p03s4jm7
An Essay called The Art of Storytelling /programmes/b07cypjl
Dr Patrick Gray teaches at Durham University and is the author of Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic and has co-edited Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics
Dr Emma Whipday teaches at the University of Newcastle and has published Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies: Violence in the Early Modern ±«Óãtv

You can find a playlist with other discussions about Shakespeare on the Free Thinking programme website /programmes/p06406hm
and a podcast series which gives you productions of the plays recorded for radio The Shakespeare Sessions /programmes/p0655br3/episodes/downloads

Producer: Emma Wallace

Image: A First Folio edition of William Shakespeare's plays (1623)
Credit: JOHN D MCHUGH/AFP via Getty Images

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  • Wed 21 Apr 2021 22:00

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