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PROMO FOR  3/15/209       "Shakespeare: Where There's a
                                             Will"
*All the world's a stage!  The Play's the thing.  Fair is foul and foul
is fair.  Hardly a day goes by when the words that flowed so easily from
Will Shakespeare's pen don't meet and greet us in the modern world.  In
this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, sweet William makes his way
to the graphic novel and to the culture wars.


PROGRAM RUNDOWN::   "Shakespeare: Where There's A Will"
***Language advisory*** See Segment Two below.


0:00 - 18:31        SEGMENT 1: (18:32)
            Marjorie Garber is one of the world's premier Shakespeare
            scholars and teaches at Harvard.  Her latest book is "On
            Shakespeare and Modern Culture."  She tells Anne
            Strainchamps how Shakespeare makes modern culture and
            modern culture makes Shakespeare, and we hear examples
            from the plays and film versions like "Shakespeare in
            Love."  
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

18:32 - 19:01  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

19:02 - 42:53       SEGMENT 2: (23:52)
            Jess Winfield was one of the original members of "The
            Reduced Shakespeare Company."  He's now a novelist and
            talks with Jim Fleming about "My Name is Will: a novel of
            sex, drugs and Shakespeare." also, Mark Anderson is the
            author of "Shakespeare by Another Name: The Life of
            Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was
            Shakespeare." Anderson tells Steve Paulson that no single
            piece of evidence is conclusive, but all the funny
            coincidences "prove" his thesis.  

***Language Advisory***
     At 12:46 into this segment, Anderson is describing the plot of King Lear
and says "...has a legitimate son named Edgar and a bastard son named
Edmund."
            Also, Shakespeare biographer Stephen Greenblatt isn't
            persuaded: he demolishes Anderson's theory during his
            conversation with Steve and insists that Shakespeare's
            genius is precisely that he wasn't a nobleman.
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

42:54 - 43:23       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

43:24 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (9:37)
            Karen Winborn tells Jim Fleming about Classical Comics
            which have published three versions of Shakespeare plays,
            pairing various versions of the texts with bright,
            action-packed, comic book style visuals.  She explains
            the company's goals and their success, so far. 
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo

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