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Michelle Ephraim on Discovering Shakespeare and Reevaluating The Merchant of Venice
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Michelle Ephraim on Discovering Shakespeare and Reevaluating The Merchant of Venice

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Michelle Ephraim’s memoir Green World refracts The Merchant of Venice through the changing dynamics of her own family, as her Holocaust-survivor parents age and she becomes a mother herself.

Patrick Stewart on a Life Shaped by Shakespeare
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Patrick Stewart on a Life Shaped by Shakespeare

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We talk to Sir Patrick Stewart about his Yorkshire youth, auditioning for the RSC, and his most famous roles on the stage and screen.

Shakespeare and Folktales
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Shakespeare and Folktales

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 138 You probably know where Shakespeare got the ideas for his plays. His Histories come from Holinshed’s Chronicles. Caesar and other Roman plays depend on Plutarch’s Lives. The Comedy of Errors is based on Plautus’s Menaechmi. But what…