Mel's Shakespeare Project and Two New Books — 01 March 2024

In this episode, we get excited about two books: Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis and Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life by Nell Greenfieldboyce. Then Mel talks about how she’s delving into Shakespeare. [transcript]

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Links

• Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis

• King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis

• Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Distraction of the Week: Delving into Shakespeare

• Review: David Tennant in Macbeth

• Watch David Tennant recite a bit of Macbeth to honor the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio.

• BBC Radio: Macbeth

• Hamlet with David Tennant (2009)

• The Guardian Review: David Tennant in Hamlet

• Richard II with David Tennant (2013)

• The Guardian Review: David Tennant in Richard II

• Much Ado About Nothing with David Tennant and Catherine Tate (2011)

• The Guardian Review: Much Ado About Nothing

• Legends of Literature YouTube: Shakespeare Analysis

• Chop Bard podcast — ‘the cure for boring Shakespeare’

• Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth by A.C. Bradley on Amazon and Project Gutenberg

• Open Source Shakespeare — all the plays, sonnets, and poems

Top image courtesy of Marc Brenner.