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Re-writing Shakespeare Is Nothing New

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For a guy who's been dead for 400 years plus, we sure talk about Shakespeare a lot.  What can you say: he's still got it. 

Part of Shakespeare scholarship is interpreting his works, and interpreting EARLIER interpretations.  A number of Shakespeare's works were re-written in the 17th and 18th centuries, to "improve" them for the audiences of the day. 

Shakespeare aficionado Geoff Ridden stages examples of the latter-day re-writes at Camelot Theatre in Talent today (October 19th).  We invited the other Geoffrey R. to spend some time talking about the project.  

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.