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11/10/22 • 28 min
Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare - Episode 2: Becoming King
Transcript
Pushkin. What is honor a word? What is the net word honor? Who had he'd died? Where that he feel it? No? Those are lines from Shakespeare's play Henry the fourth Part one. It's Sir John Falstaff speaking the scoundrel who's as outrageous as he is oversized. He's on the battlefield honor, bound to fight for king and country, but he'd love to get out of it. So he gives the whole idea of honor a cross examination and decides it's not for him. Theref
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