why shakespeare. what makes shakespeare, why was shakespeare shakespeare? >> he was as i say he was born into a time of extraordinary crisis,ed passing of the middle ages of faith and the birth of a new age of skepticism, a mercantile age. he was born particularly in england at a time of brutal and very, very fast revolution of the sacking of all the chumps, the removal of the virgin mary, the destruction of all images, in strat stratford we have the church where shares spear is buried, holy trinity, you can still see the scars to take away all those graph enimages. and he was himself from a catholic background. and he managed to deal with crisis, and to the get into jail thomas kidd, ben johnson, most of his contemporaries got into terrible trouble, christopher marlow was-- how did slax spear survive that is one of the things that makes shakespeare shakespeare, he survived. he, and one of the main ways that he both survived and became so good was that he unlike say christopher marlow or ben johnson without couldn't keep the author out of it, couldn't keep

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we, the crolla lanchas are shakespeare's descendents.ned this until a little lady in boston called delia bacon woke up one morning, looked at herself in the glass and said "what if my great, great, great, great grandfather wrote shakespeare?" and she started trying to move it and what makes it work is the same principal of good criminal lawyers once you're give an brief you try to find evidence to make it believable. and that's what's going on with these 50 poor wretched claimants. >> rose: how do you explain shakespeare? i once did a television program called "why shakespeare." >> i think it's this. there if there's all this enormous world recognition of shakespeare. you remember al pacino made this movie where he walked across a street and -- >> rose: "searching for richard?" >> yes, and he was crossing the street here in new york with a camera following him and he stopped some guy walking and said "shakespeare, what does that mean to you?" and the a very simple guy said "to be or not to be." now, if this cowl happen on this scale r sc

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since i was citizen teacher let me take you back to the classroom and shakespeare and the words said about the noblest roman of them all, brutus. his life was gentle and the elements subtle mixed in him that nature might stand up and say to all the world this was a man, gentle, compassionate, conscientious and funny and serious. this was a man. this was our milton marks. [applause] >> thank you henny. now, to milton's friend from a slightly later period in his life craig hofer. >> milton -- milton and i first became friends and 1992 in the frozen of maine where milton was two years ahead of my. i will grateful to tim dirkin who spoke moving at his funeral in august but can't be here today. i will be grateful for introducing us and setting up a wonderful friendship for so long. strangely while most college chums tend to grow distant after they graduate milton and i became closer over the years as they passed, particularly after we both arrived at university of pennsylvania for graduate school back in 1988. the reason for this is simple but power. it reminds me of woody allen's line "9

the victim, abraham shakespeare, is seen in this home video, shot by moore. >> you get tired of people asking you for money all the time? >> a year ago. since then -- >> you just need to start living your life. >> they have won't take no for an answer so they just keep on asking. >> investigators found shakespeare body under a cement slab owneded by a home by moore. >> they say i premed today it. i planned it and i planned to keep the gun that i shot him with. i plan to keep everything for evidence for them to make it simple. >> i would never be that much of an idiot if i did do it, to put it in my yard, use my gun. there's no way you can think i did this. >> if there's a bright side to moore's incarceration is that media coverage made her a popular figure. >> you're pretty popular? >> most high-profile cases are. they get a lot of fan mail, she enjoys the attention. >> i get them from minnesota, california, new york -- they say they like me. >> much of her mail come from men in skral in prison achrisst cross the country. >> some are nice. some freak me out. one guy had a six page lett

don't tell me, shakespeare? bravo. i'm getting sick of bloody shakespeare. lewis: now, this second murder changes everything. in what way? amanda costello left oxford two years ago. so whatever it was behind all this, it didn't happen last week. maybe in edinburgh in the summer? at the festival? they took a couple of shows up there and all hell broke loose apparently. scott was accused of stealing and there was a fight. all highly theatrical. yeah, there's a reason for that. hathaway: we can eliminate one possibility. make my day. amanda costello, she gave the play a four-star review. what possibility does that eliminate? well, that one of the cast overheard her phoning in her copy to the paper, didn't like what they'd heard, so decided he'd have his revenge. or her revenge. what century are you living in? journalists don't phone in copy anymore. they do it electronically on their blackberrys and things. did she have a blackberry? had it with her at the theater. where is it now? no idea. it wasn't with the body and it wasn't in her room at the hotel. it stri

this is not just me twisting shakespeare to suit my preferences. and the marginal comment on one of the solar please, it was written that this is forcibly shown the great montagne-ism of hamlet. herman melville conceded as well. the montagne-ism of kundera, i don't know about you, but i found that if i read it, while i still enjoy the essay part, i was becoming increasingly impatient with the novelistic part, which unfairly, i always remember as this of doctors chasing after doctors. it is an essay in seven parts. it talks about all the stuff that i wanted from the essays about the kind of novelistic pitch. it is the book of laughter and forgetting. it was a novel in the form of variations. testaments betrayed was a series of variations in the form of the essay. the same is true of the later nonfiction book of his, the curtain, which ends with an extraordinary reflection. it is rather similar to the one advanced by steiner. wonderful idea there. we have in both of these books, in other words is something that i have been increasingly fond of, that

. >> do they teach you shakespeare? >> i managed to stay away from shakespeare at the master's level. >> you'd be comfortable there now because i understand even for literature majors shakespeare is not a mandatory subject, do you believe that? what has happened to these? >> reporter, covered politics, weekly pbs series john ander nathalie. "u.s. news and world report," religion editor. your book to your credit. >> my first book. >> and still working at "u.s. news & world report." >> i still am. >> if i mention the name funk to you, who is he, robert funk? >> he's a bible scholar, new testament scholar who is founder and leader of a group called jesus seminar. a group of scholars for the last 15 years have been exploring the historical jesus. >> yeah, does he have very much standing in the academic community paula fredriksen interhe represents the school of representation. >> she's also a diplomat. well, funk is saying some pretty vacanting things. and it appears as though he is off the charts, does it not? he's organiz