Episódios

  • CR Episode 326: The Once and Future King, Part II

    CR Episode 326: The Once and Future King, Part II
    Jun 8 2026
    The panel reads chapters 8–13 of The Sword in the Stone, with a focus on the precise nature of Merlin's magic and the 'transformations' experienced by the Wart (but not by Kay), and a detailed examination of the episode of the Ants and their collectivism.
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    1 hora e 2 minutos
  • CR Episode 325: The Once and Future King, Part I

    CR Episode 325: The Once and Future King, Part I
    Jun 1 2026
    The panel reads the first seven chapters of The Sword in the Stone, with attention given to the modern and medieval aspects of the setting, White's own narratorial voice, the differing metaphors and parallels of characterisation, and the original sources.
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    1 hora e 10 minutos
  • CR Episode 324: The Poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson

    CR Episode 324: The Poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    May 25 2026
    The panel reads three poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson—"Uriel", "Ode Inscribed to William H. Channing", and "The Snow Storm"—with special attention to the role of the poet-philosopher's transcendentalist, romanticist, and abolitionist views in the poems.
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    59 minutos
  • CR Episode 323: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V

    CR Episode 323: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V
    May 18 2026
    The panel discusses the concluding act and scene of the play, with special attention to the linguistic wordplay and the Shakespearean critique of players, audiences, and critics alike in the both the play-within-a-play device and in Puck's epilogue.
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    1 hora e 9 minutos
  • CR Episode 322: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act IV

    CR Episode 322: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act IV
    May 11 2026
    The panel discusses the resolution of the love quadrangle, as Puck puts right the enchantments in order to bring Oberon's original plan to fruition, before turning to consider Titania's relationship to her husband in the wake of her own enchantment.
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    53 minutos
  • CR Episode 321: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III

    CR Episode 321: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III
    May 4 2026
    The panel discusses the deployment of additional fairy magic, with the transformation of Bottom and the confounding of Helena, and the confusion that results when both Bottom and Helena misbelieve that they are subject of their friends' pranks.
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    1 hora e 10 minutos
  • CR Episode 320: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II

    CR Episode 320: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II
    Apr 27 2026
    The panel discusses the second act and the moment in the play when the plans of the characters begin to go astray due to mischance, with special attention to the tension between Titania and Oberon, and the expanding geographical knowledge of the time.
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    1 hora e 1 minuto
  • CR Episode 319: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I

    CR Episode 319: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I
    Apr 20 2026
    The panel discusses the setting and form of the play, before discussing the first act and its complicated love quadrangle, with attention given to love and the threat of violence, and the characters' creation of overlapping plans that threaten to collide.
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    52 minutos