{"id":16747,"date":"2024-04-15T20:48:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T00:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=16747"},"modified":"2024-04-15T20:48:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T00:48:21","slug":"episode-585-leonard-barkan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-585-leonard-barkan","title":{"rendered":"Episode 585 – Leonard Barkan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 585:
\nLeonard Barkan<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Engaging in reading, body & soul, present & past, is an insurance policy against loss.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>With Reading Shakespeare Reading Me<\/a> (Fordham), professor Leonard Barkan<\/a> blends memoir and deep reading of Shakespeare’s greatest plays to explore his lifelong relationship with literature and the way(s) we use art to construct our identities. We get into what it means to read, hear, perform, direct, teach Shakespeare, why it took him a lifetime to get to this book, how he contrasts himself with a radically naive reader (and why it’s important to try to capture our na\u00efvet\u00e9), the gayness of Shakespeare’s two Antonios, the stories he couldn’t tell until his folks were gone, and the role Shakespeare played in Leonard’s gay coming of age. We also talk about Narcissism vs. Wissenschaft, his next book about the WWII loss of 434 paintings by the Great Masters (!), Cervantes’ role as Shakespeare’s literary peer, the on-stage therapy session he held at his career-celebration, and his stint as a theater director and what it taught him about teaching. Plus we discuss the strangeness of King Lear’<\/em>s opening scene, the eerie humor of Hamlet<\/em>, the fraught subject of having kids, the glory & limitations of mimesis, how it felt to see his book The Hungry Eye<\/a> on a bookshelf in The Bear<\/a>, the lifelong struggle of living up to his promise, and a lot<\/em> more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Reading Shakespeare Reading Me<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“What does it mean to hypothesize that for Shakespeare’s audience for, say, King Lear, they didn’t know what was going to happen?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n