but now one theater company wants to shake shakespeare up.ng the bard's work through different perspectives. >> the mask of night is on my face. >> shakespeare is very british, and that is such a massive part of british identity as well as the industry. it is like, where do we as black and black people and mixed-race fit within that and claiming a new narrative on what shakespeare could be? >> do you love me? >> there will be plenty more of this scenes from the theater company. the uk's first all black, all-female group, committed to reinventing shakespeare's most famous texts for modern-day audiences, which they believe will make theater more inclusive, a place for everyone to relish new interpretations. >> summons thee to heaven. >> that is a way to modernize it, finding those themes and conflicts and the joy that happens in the black community and where that fits in with shakespeare. one of the videos we are doing in our first project explores child loss, black mortality rates. >> and all of their shs will be written, directed, produced, a

there is one thing to learn on shakespeare. what you learn is deeper. you learn about forms you learn about creativity one of the futures of mozart. he doesn't repeat a lot. he repeats a variation. that is a lesson and creativity. it's central to the modern economy. there is lots to learn student of mine had said there's a lot to be learned from curiosity. >> i can offer more specific technical reasons for wanting to do economics. but i think you get the idea. >> over the years we have talked to about several of your books. you've been on book tv several times. you have brought up your episcopalian roots and activities in the past. what about your religious life? does that play into economics and human autumn? >> right now i am working on a book god in mammon. it was a word which was the language word for money. the subtitle is a public theology for commerce. it tries to show the they're not necessarily enemies. they can be enemies but you can have corruption too. not only in the marketplace. the uncorrupted version of these two that the profane can wor

the women re—inventing shakespeare for newer audiences.ings of the summer. cristiano ronaldo is heading back to manchester united. the government is under increasing pressure to grant working visas to people from the european union to help fill gaps in the uk's food supply chain. the morrisons supermarket boss has told the bbc that more lorry drivers need to be recruited, and there are other calls for a special 12—month covid recovery visa to help food producers adjust to new post—brexit migration rules, and avoid wide spread food shortages. our business editor simonjack has more details. at this convenience store in the outskirts of coventry, it's hard to know where the next gap in the shelves will appear. 0wner paul showed me his latest delivery notice. dozens of items are missing. lemonade, water, eggs, bread, and we didn't find out until today. to serve his local customers, he's having to scramble. we haven't got milk on the shelf one day, we haven't got bread on the shelf the second day. that customer comes back on the third day and w

a new theatre group called mawa says it wants to bring a love of shakespeare to a wider audience, astimates only 10% of theatre audiences come from black, asian or other minority backgrounds, and mawa hopes to change that. our community affairs correspondent adina campbell has the story. one of the world's most iconic scenes — romeo and juliet�*s passionate declaration of love. if they do see thee, they will murder thee! but now one theatre company wants to shake shakespeare up — exploring the bard's work through different perspectives. than death prorogued, wanting of thy love. thou knowest the mask of night is on my face. shakespeare is very british, and that's such a massive part of, like, british identity, and as well as the industry, and it's like where do we as black and mixed—race women fit within that and kind of reclaiming a new narrative for what shakespeare could be. dost thou love me? i know thou wilt say aye and i will take thy word. and there will be plenty more of these scenes from mawa theatre company, the uk's first all—black, all—female group, committed to reinventi

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and how can i combine ideas from those, all of a sudden you have shakespeare and daniel burnham, a great architect and the story of h.j. heinz, conrad hilton and you understand walmart and the more subjects you are interested in, your chances of coming up with really something innovative just goes up geometrically so i would never tell anybody not to study any subject. but to truly study and go deep and we start with the history, where does it come from. who first had this concept and what role has played in society and go back as far as you can. i just wrote the newsletter we published talk about the family and how they ran their business and how parallel it is to the way venture capitalist act today in terms of the division of the stock between the money and the people doing the work. it's just about the same. it's like 15th century which is asurprise to some people . >>are there any significance to the hundred and 60 recommendations ? >> i just ran out of steam and pages. put down hundred 60, cut it off there. i can do 1000 and i always invite people to email me, get contact on one of

do you recommend reading shakespeare? >> guest: i'm sorry again?>> host: with your book recommendations in "the lifetime learner's guide to reading and learning" do you recommend reading shakespeare? >> guest: all, you know, it's not on the list because i don't do fiction. i'm not an expert in that. it's kind of parallel to people all the time at austin city go online with this high tech started, when i give advice i've read 10,000 business plans maybe but when this the sickle od i say no, no. i can give you the names of 20 people right now that know when your times as much as i do about building a hardware or software company. it would be silly for me to venture into shakespeare. i know a good world alice. i know a good. i know good book on world history. i know good social science books. i try to stick to my wheelhouse as they say these days. but i do think learning art and music and architecture is critically important and i touch on architecture because that is the field i have great interest in and to macklin summerhouse architecture books and

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a little bit of shakespeare. laura kenny has got her fifth gold of shakespeare.t an amazing athlete she has proved to be over so many years, herfifth olympic gold, women that in the women's madison until keele. —— in tokyo. getting gold yet again. greece has been plunged into an unprecedented environmental crisis — according to the country's prime minister. days of heatwaves have turned the country into a powder keg — and he predicts the worst is yet to come with strong westerly winds expected to fan the flames. as mark lobel reports, villagers are coming under pressure to abandon their homes. as villages like these in the peloponnese burn, the greek prime minister is urging extreme caution. houses can be rebuilt, he says, trees can regrow, however human life cannot be replaced. but abandoning your home is never easy in your 70s. translation: leave and go where, and let my house burn? _ if we had left, this place would have burned. we told the women and elderly and kids to go, and whoever was able stay to help, however they could. crops are at risk, too. so far,

buck and was prepared to let the _ shakespeare buck and was prepared to let the bodies pile up rathery samuel, i'm looking purchasing a bit more of this when they get the wallpaper tomorrow because there is clearly a lot of detail that the paper has looked at. it's quite a good time to take stock as we got to this stage in the pandemic where it looks like, and i wouldn't want to presume, but it looks like hospitalisations have saved —— stabilised. it looks like vaccination rates are sufficiently high. we are coping with the doubt the variant at this stage. who knows what's new variants will emerge. obviously one question is about our preparedness for this pandemic and care they be dead prepare for the wrong pandemic and there was a lot more that we could have done, but we will have to ask difficult questions about where the virus came from and backis about where the virus came from and back is incredibly important because if we don't want to make the same mistakes again, we will have to find that out, and we have had facebook saying that people were not allowed to suggest that it coul

the key is an educated populace and by educated populace i don't mean people who can read proust" shakespeare. i mean people who understand how a shared system we live in works. the cause if they don't, they become fodder for politicians and the politicians come along and say elect me and i will give you free college. then everybody tears and says yes, i want free college elect this guy and you find out after it's too late that there is no such thing as free college and you just made your own life worse off because you didn't understand the system in which we were working. the incentives that you should have to offer offer something you couldn'tdeliver and what subsequently happens to the economy when you attempt to do so . >> professor, you have a case study on the minimum wage and the number of 550,000 here, what is that? >> we have a chapter on the minimum wage and economists have written a tremendous amount on the minimum wage. people will say to from time to time the minimum wage is such a bad idea: economists don't write about it and there's hundreds of academic peer-reviewed studies on

think wafers railey satler's. shakespeare has been the scene of frequent crackdowns by israeli security forces against protest as of how the abil hermes is lying for us in west jerusalem and how to really 10 stay for old stakeholders. the yes absolutely. we're here in front of the supreme court. the hearing should be starting any, any moment now, but you can see behind me the families of those who are facing these force eviction. there's also the protesters outside of the major here in support of those families. now it is a key they for these are just iraq, families that are going to put forward some documents to the court that petitioning the case that they have the right just in those homes that they had been living there since more than 5 decades. now, joining me to me, i wish how they use a member message and he will explain all of this a bit more in detail. just let me thank you very much for joining me here. that what do we expect to happen at the supreme court today? we have a few scenarios now where there's a lot of things that can happen for the follow up expecting a clear deci

and when you talk start to look at the relationship between this very famous shakespeare in actor, and phil sheridan, it is not that surprising. these two shared a relationship. phil shared and referred to murdoch, as a great friend. and this was a friendship that was not all that old by october 1864, it was not even a year old. the friendship between james murdoch and phil sheridan began in november of 1863, when the actor journey to tennessee to find the body of his son who had been killed in the fighting around chattanooga. that is that connection the pressure that murdoch was placing on read, reed just finally decided i'm going to write the poem about sheridan. and he did. the went murdoch recited this poem for the first time, the last day of october at pikes opera house, the crowd just went wild. what is amazing to me is that there are indeed accounts of individuals who had attended that gathering that evening who were so struck, so taken by this performance, that they wrote letters and they wrote in their journals. when was the last time you were so moved you went to a performanc

shakespeare doesn't... 0f don't know. shakespeare doesn't... of course, it's not a new play.lows of people complain at his gate because he refused to sing green door. do you feel like that? i he refused to sing green door. do you feel like that?— you feel like that? i am very crateful you feel like that? i am very grateful to _ you feel like that? i am very grateful to one _ you feel like that? i am very grateful to one foot - you feel like that? i am very grateful to one foot in - you feel like that? i am very grateful to one foot in the. you feel like that? i am very - grateful to one foot in the grave. if somebody shouts, "i don't believe it!" in the streets and ijust if somebody shouts, "i don't believe it!" in the streets and i just wave and walk on. i love doing that because david is such a brilliant writer. it was wonderful. you mentioned — writer. it was wonderful. you mentioned a _ writer. it was wonderful. you mentioned a movie. - writer. it was wonderful. you mentioned a movie. what movie are you working on? this mentioned a movie. what movie are you working on?— y

but as we got into it i realize it's a little exciting shakespeare. you realize how much we get from the alamo here in texas in politics and how much it informs our politics these days. it was stunning to me something i regarded as a provincial tourist interest is so foundational to our life these days. that's really what kept me going to the book. >> sorry i lost my screen this is where we all you everyone understands by now. i want to zero in on something you said, bryant, the latino experience and how that is reflected kind of in the history as someone who is latina whose mexican/american born and raised here in texas. has read some of the scholarship you write in your book about the historian had different glasses on the narrative but we are typically hearing of the versions and i think you'll call it the heroic anglo narrative the texas history. i just have to ask is this something you all thought about, you are three anglo men is a something that crossed your mind as writers? i should say people tell the story they feel compelled to tell. certai

he wrote a book that would become shakespeare's major sources for the which is in macbeth.the cause of king james saw an almost magical mixture between the culture of jameses elite stone masons, people who were building their palaces, chapels that sort of thing. and the statesman from non- stone masons to be attracted into this a body and gradually taken over and turn the tools of stone masons trade in two symbols rather than merely tools of the trade. it was really in london, a century later that free masonry probably became code defined and acquired a single governing body in 1717, the grand lodge. it is from london the capitol of the emperor that speaks of the constitution of 1723 that famously drew up the first proper rulebook for free masonry and was key to being spread around the world because it was capitol of the british empire, hub of world trade and it is from london it's expanded around the world benjamin franklin was the first person to publish those constitutions in the united states. in france as well when he spends time with her become most for tile soil the

all ranges of cultural from the very highest to the lowest, on the high side lincoln could recite shakespearee page, and many other poets -- not to brag because these lines meant something to him and he liked bawdy jokes and frontier humor and everything in between. sappy parlor songs and soing for. so he did bridge the whole range of culture, and he strongly believed that people are shaped by conditions, outside conditions, indelibly shaped but at the same time, he stated he believed in the individual's capacity to shape, to in turn feed back into culture and for the individual to shape it and my book is really about the whole interchange between him and his surrounding culture and how that guided him into the presidency and through the civil war, and it was a nation divide, of course, over slavery, and in that division he was compared often to -- the famous tightrope walker who went back and forth across niagra falls, no net, backwards, forwards in chains, on stilts, pushing wheelbarrow, carrying a man over, and many cartoons portrayed him as -- and he compared himself to blondon, and peopl

shakespeare was, of course, was his classic plays: "julius cleanser," "clorox andronicus," "the purellinghe merry wipes of windex." these relatively useless gestures are everywhere, from restaurants to sports venues, and the washington baseball fans are not happy. one nationals supporter was particularly frustrated at the hands-free condiment stations, saying, "sometimes the ketchup is barbecue. sometimes the mustard is ketchup. there's no more relish or onions. this is the biggest (bleep) of the ballpark this year. no, clearly, the biggest (bleep) this year and every year is that you can't wear the hats that the ice cream comes in. why make it a hat if it doesn't fit your head?? and maybe a baby. maybe you can jam it on a baby's head if the fontinel hasn't closed yet. oh, grow up! baby-- baby heads bounce! ( laughter ) now, it's not just ballparks. one expert wondered why cleaning crews are still disinfecting new york city subway cars. yes, because before coronavirus, everyone's first thought when getting on a new york city subway car was, "boy, this looks way too clean. ( laughter ) and

with tindell being the british library of the most important writer in the english writer next to shakespeare. the early 60 century, a scholar of a professor at cambridge and he read martin luther's illegal translation of the bible, a big battle back then, hold onto their bible, these people were reading in their own language, tindell thought i'd going to translate this into english. he went to the bishop of london that can i do this? the bishop said of course not. we will kill you if you do that. he went to the conduct, did it, did a brilliant job of it smuggled into england. thousands and thousands of copieses began to be sold. again, they were forbidden so the bishop was chasing illegal copies, even five copies of the illegal bible, ordered to bring them back to england and burn them so tindell was finally caught and murdered. now what is the epilogue to this? this illegal bible was so brilliant times changed very soon and they broke with the church tindell's version of the bible became the core of the king james bible so this forbidden document became mainstream. [laughter] >> bestseller.

tyndall being now termed by the is a lessbrary important writer in the english language and that was shakespeare. >> tyndall lived in the early 16th century and he was a scholar, again a professor at oxford and cambridge and he read martin luther's illegal translation of the bible. there is a big battle back then. keep people from reading it in their own s languages that tyndl thought i'm going to translate this into english. he went to thehe bishop of londn and taken i do this in the bishop said of course not greatly will kill you if you do that. he went to the convent and did a brilliant job of it and smuggled it into england. thousands and thousands of copies began to get sold and again because they were for bitten. and so the bishop was chasing all the illegal copies and he was telling people by copies of the illegal bible in order to bring them back to england and burn them. and so it tents all was finally caught and murdered. what is the epilogue to this? the illegal bible was so brilliant that times change very soon in henry viii broke with the church and tyndall's version of the bible be

lincoln could recite shakespeare by the page and many other poets. to him. anded he liked humor and everything in between. sappy parlor and so forth so he strongly believed it was shaped by conditions that stated he believed in the individual's capacity to shape so my book is about that interchange between him and how that guided him into the presidency. he was compared often to the famous tightrope walker that went back and forth across niagara falls, no neck, backwards, forwards, on stilts, pushing a wheelbarrow, many curtains portrayed the few times he compared himself and people would say can't you go faster and he would say would you tell him to t tilt this way or that way, to the left or the right. i had to stay centered here. if i don't, some would go to slow or too fast and if i don't something bad is going to happen for example the border states. if we lose kentucky, we would lose everything. so i have to stay centered. and it was also confronted in the culture that is turbulent, rowdy and fragmented. he once called america full of mobs that

allro ranges of culture from the highest to the lowest and on the high side linking could recite shakespearepage. not to brag because these lines meant something to him. he really did bridge a lot of culture and he firmly believe that people are shaped by conditions by their outside conditions indelibly. thee same time he stated he believed in the individuals capacity to shape an intern for the individual to shape it. it was about that whole letter changeun between him and how tht guided him into the presidency through the civil war. as a nation divided over and in that division he was compared often to the famous tightrope walker who wentlk back and forth across niagara falls backwards for and in chains and on stilts pushing a will barrow and many cartoons and a few times he compared himself to him. people would say can't you go faster on and he would say if -- were going across niagara i have to stay centered here. if i don't some people were saying too slow and if i don't something bad is going to happen. for example we could lose one of the states. if we lose kentucky will losee everythi

being now termed by the british library as the most important writer in the english language as shakespeare. he was a professor at oxford and cambridge. he read martin luther's illegal translation of the bible. kept people from reading it in their own languages. tindale thought i'm going to translate this into english. he went to the bishop of london, can i do this? the bishop said of course not. we'll kill you if you do that. he went to the continent, did it, did a brilliant job of it and began to smuggle it into england. thousands and thousands of copies began to get sold, again, because they were forbidden. and so the bishop was chasing all the illegal copies. he resorted to having to buy copies himself, in order to bring it back to england and burn them. and so tyndale was finally caught and murdered. now, what's the epilogue to this? his illegal bible was so brilliant that times changed very very soon, and tyndale's version of the bible became the core of the king james bible, so this ultra forbidden document became mainstream -- >> best seller today. >> and lasting for five or six cen

and a bible-reading boy who had a great interest in his father's sizable library, particularly shakespeare. and jesse was noted to be noble hearted and assertive. they had a normal family life. there was nothing that would make you guess what later they would become. frank desired higher education. he was looking forward to going to college, but when he turned 18 the civil war broke out. so he enlisted in the missouri state guard, which was a confederate union because he supported the confederacy. he fought with that guard in a couple of battles and then he returned home. it was either due to injury or illness. while he was home he was arrested by the local militia who were union sympathizers and they refused to let him go until he signed an oath of allegiance. that meant he could no longer fight in the organized forces of the confederacy. he, however, did not want to let the war pass him by without doing his part so he joined quantrill's men in july of 1862. three months after the raid on lawrence, kansas, that i mentioned earlier, union soldiers invaded the samuel family farm and wanted

culture, all ranges of culture from the highest to the lowest and the high side, lincoln could recite shakespearenot to brag, just as these lines meant something to him and he like body jokes and frontier humor and everything in between . savvy parlor songs and so forth so he did reach all range of cultures and he strongly believes that people are shaped by conditions, by their outside conditions and indelibly shaped but at the same time he stated he believes in the individual's capacity to shape, to intern feedback intoculture and for the peindividual to shape it . so my book is really about the whole interchange between him and his surrounding culture and how that guided him intothe presidency and through the civil war . and it was a nation divided course over slavery and in that division he was compared often to london, the famous tightrope walker and he went back and forth across niagara falls, no net. backwards, forwards in. pushing a wheelbarrow, and many cartoons featured lincoln and in a few times he compared himself with london and people would say can't you go faster on slavery? he said

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credit for, many traditional biographies say lincoln is quoting the bible like one might quote shakespearethe second inaugural in the previous 18 inaugural addresses, bible was quoted only one time. "the bible four times and he doesn't quoted at the ende which find in inaugural addresses but he quotes all for verses substantively as part of his arguing for the idea that the almighty has his own purposes as lincoln suggests in his inaugural so whether he's asking the question you asked, me the cup pass from me, that's interesting, i have never faced that one quite before but i think he really is operating at a deep level he's not even sure who's going to winin the war. the war goes on, he supposed to be winning the war, his commander-in-chief but he is going to a higher power i how the war might come. >> i'm going to follow up in another question based on his methodology, jim wants to know, we've seen lincoln's logical methodology of demonstration by these principles discussed in other books. what have you synthesize from lincoln's notes that further identify methodology embedded in his thi

capitol hill but any tourist trying to get close to the library of congress or supreme court or shakespeare library are blocked off. f.b.i. and a.t.f. involved. we were hearing 20 minutes or so ago sounded like police on a bull horn trying to speak to that suspect. it is kind of hard to make out the words. we can't say that for sure. no information yet on who the suspect may be. capitol police are escorting tourists coming close or walk to the capitol to get them off the sidewalks. our bureau is close to capitol hill and trying to get from there three or four blocks took me a long time to get through. they have all of the senate office buildings as well as the house office buildings blocked off so people can't get close to them. also reports that maybe the capitol south metro, close to the cannon house office building. not seeing everybody running or loud sigh rens. -- sirens. this is not regular. we've seen capitol police take security more seriously in the wake of what's happened. the fences have been taken down but we believe this incident is occurring is really on the street across from

the traditional w biographies simply say that he is quoting the bible like someone might quote shakespeare in the middle of the 19th century but as for the previous binaural dresses equal to five times and he doesn't quoted at the end and we need god's help to, but he quotes allev of thems part of the argument for the idea that he has his own purposes as was suggested, so whether he is asking the question that you are asked, that is interesting, i have never faced that one right before like this and i think that he really is operating in deep level. and no, he is seething in the sense on how the war might become. anotherwing up on question, this is from jane johnson and illinois. monica know, we have seen the demonstration, including principles discussed by other books. would you take from the notes that would further identify that the ideology is leading us to closer understanding. >> well, in answer to your question, although he is logical in this sense, he is much broader than that and that is why i call it the lyrical lincoln, he is operating with a much wider keyboard than i think tha

traditional biography simply say lincoln is for example quoting the bible like one might quote shakespearef the 19th century but as for the second and a girl in the previous 18 dresses the bike was quoted only one time. lincoln quotes b the bible four times and he doesn't quoted at the end which we find in modern addresses that he quotes all four verses substandard glee as part of his argument for the idea that the almighty has his own purposes as lincoln suggested in the second and not grow.de so whether he's asking the question that you asked does the cup pass through me i've never faced that one quite before but i think he really is operating in a very deep level and this meditation at the time will suggest he's not even sure who's going to winet this war. the war goes on and he's supposed i to be winning the wa. >> the commander-in-chief but he's heating in a sense to a higher power on how the end of the war might come. >> thank you and i'm going to follow up on another question that has to do with his methodology and his thinking. this is jim johnson here is jim jumped in here and ell

traditional biographies simply say lincoln is for example quoting the bible like one might quote shakespearemiddle of the 19th century. but as for the second inaugural, in the previous 18 inaugural address is a bible was quoted only one time. lincoln quotes the bible four times. but he doesn't quote it at the end which we find in inaugural addresses but he quotes all four verses very substantively as part of his argument for the idea that the almighty has his own purposes as lincoln suggests in the second inaugural. so whether he's asking the question that you asked me this cup pass from me, that's an interesting one. i've never faced that one quiet before but i think he really is operating a very deep level and as the meditation on the divine will suggestshe's not even sure who's going to win this war . the war goes on, wait a second, he'ssupposed to be winning the war but no , he's seething in a sense to a higher power on the end of the war might come . >> then i'm going to follow up on another question that has to do with his methodology. and this is jim johnson here in illinois. jim want

many of the biographies say that lincoln is, for example, quoting the bible like one might quote shakespeare in the middle of the 19th century, in the second inaugural, in the previous inaugural addresses the bible was quoted only one time. lincoln quotes the bible four times and he doesn't quote it at the end we kind of find in modern inaugural addresses and we need god's help, too, but he needs them substantively in the argument for the idea that the almighty has its own purposes as lincoln suggests in the second inaugural. whether he's asking the question that you ask, may that cup pass from me, that's an interesting one, i've never faced that one quite before, but i think he really is operating the very deep level and as the meditation on the divide will suggest. he's not even sure who is going to win this war. the will -- the war goes on. wait a second, he's supposed to be winning the war, he's the commander-in-chief. but, no, he's ceding in a sense to the higher power how the war might become. >> thank you, i'm going to follow up on another question that has to do with his methodology

she said something like he was the greatest dramatist of the thomas shakespeare and everyone laughed because they thought this was some radical guy in york city undermining the project but, of course, he wasn't. she experienced this moment as the shocking thing which he said this is all fine and totally absurd but there's thousands of people whose jobs on the line not to mention the possibility of this his projects beingd when their starting to contribute to the american culture. she took that tact when she was testifying. henry allsbrook came up and use that to be very deferential and cooperative. he didn't want to antagonize the committee. he wanted to try to save what he was working on so he answered all the questions. he admitted there were all these issues with certain people on different projects including the nearest city project, raising a ruckus and that labor problems all the time. >> they were always picketing the office. >> and new york city was kind of a hotbed of labor activity and radicalism. cause a lot of destruction whenever they would have cutbacks to the wpa workf