Libby Stephenson0:00 Introduction 2:04 Two Gentlemen of Verona 4:17 The Taming of the Shrew 7:48 First Tetralogy (Henry VI part 1, 2, & 3, Richard III) 11:18 Titus Andronicus 15:37 Comedy of Errors 18:44 Love’s Labours Lost (in this one, I totally forgot that Don Armado is identified as a Spaniard, so he would be speaking Castellano) 21:42 Second Tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV part 1 & 2, Henry V) 28:01 Romeo and Juliet 28:16 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 30:32 King John
Upcoming BBC schedule: Jan: Richard III Feb: The Merchant of Venice March: Romeo & Juliet April: Troilus & Cressida May: Julius Caesar June: Antony & Cleopatra
Shakespeare & Language | Part 1Libby Stephenson2021-01-01 | 0:00 Introduction 2:04 Two Gentlemen of Verona 4:17 The Taming of the Shrew 7:48 First Tetralogy (Henry VI part 1, 2, & 3, Richard III) 11:18 Titus Andronicus 15:37 Comedy of Errors 18:44 Love’s Labours Lost (in this one, I totally forgot that Don Armado is identified as a Spaniard, so he would be speaking Castellano) 21:42 Second Tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV part 1 & 2, Henry V) 28:01 Romeo and Juliet 28:16 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 30:32 King John
Upcoming BBC schedule: Jan: Richard III Feb: The Merchant of Venice March: Romeo & Juliet April: Troilus & Cressida May: Julius Caesar June: Antony & Cleopatra
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonThe Sound of Music/Cabaret | Double Feature ReviewsLibby Stephenson2024-10-01 | The offensively long title for episode 9 is “Springtime for Hitler; or Can Nazis Sing? a Review of The Sound of Music and Cabaret.”
My apologies for the audio quality during the outro. Try as I might, I could not get the correct microphone to connect.
Episode 10 will release on October 31; we will be discussing I Am Legend (2007) and Shaun of the Dead (2004). Spooky!Portrait of a Lady on Fire/Call Me by Your Name | Double Feature ReviewsLibby Stephenson2024-08-31 | The offensively long title for episode 8 is “I Saw You, I Felt Us; or My Gay Summer: a Review of Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) and Call Me by Your Name.”
Episode 9 will release on September 30; we will be discussing The Sound of Music (1965) and Cabaret (1972).Barbie/Oppenheimer | Double Feature ReviewsLibby Stephenson2024-07-31 | The offensively long title for episode 7 is “Pick Up Your Tiny Burden; or A History of the 20th Century in Two Objects: a Review of Barbie and Oppenheimer.”
Episode 8 will release on August 31; we will be discussing Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (EN: Portrait of a Lady on Fire) (2019) and Call Me by Your Name (2017).Time Bandits/Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure | Double Feature ReviewsLibby Stephenson2024-06-30 | The offensively long title for episode 6 is “Napoleon Loves Time Travel; or The Real Friends Were the Gadgets We Broke on the Way: a Review of Time Bandits and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.”
Episode 7 will release on July 31; we will be discussing Barbie (2023) and Oppenheimer (2023).Pinocchio/AI: Artificial Intelligence | Double Feature ReviewsLibby Stephenson2024-05-31 | The offensively long title for episode 5 is “It's a Tough World for a Doll - or a Human; or Who Gets to be a Real Boy?: a Review of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and AI: Artificial Intelligence.”
Episode 6 will release on June 30; we will be discussing Time Bandits (1981) and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989).Amadeus/The Prestige/Black Swan | Double Feature ReviewsLibby Stephenson2024-04-30 | The offensively long title for episode 4 is “My Rival, My Muse, My Killer, Myself, or Is Devotion Enough?: a Review of Amadeus, The Prestige, and Black Swan.”
During the Amadeus section, we referring to the Emperor of Austria-Hungary as Franz Josef - our bad! He is, of course, Josef II.
Episode 5 will release on May 31; we will be discussing Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).The Portrait of a Lady/Dangerous Liaisons | Double Feature ReviewsLibby Stephenson2024-03-31 | The offensively long title for episode 3 is “Grand Tales of Women Convincing Men to Seduce Women; or One Scene Makes All the Difference: a Review of The Portrait of a Lady and Dangerous Liaisons.”
Episode 4 will release on April 30 and is this year's triple feature review! We will be discussing Amadeus (1984), The Prestige (2006), and Black Swan (2010).Gosford Park/Knives Out | Double Feature ReviewsLibby Stephenson2024-03-01 | The offensively long title for episode 2 is “Murder at a Violence Party; or Dad The Boss Got Murdered: a Review of Gosford Park and Knives Out.”
We recorded this during a thunderstorm, so you may occasionally hear thunder or some howling wind. You’re not going crazy, we’re just still working out our recording set up!
The casting director of Knives Out was Mary Vernieu - hats off to her!
Episode 3 will release on March 31 and we’ll be talking about The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988).The Childrens Hour/Tea and Sympathy | Double Feature ReviewsLibby Stephenson2024-01-31 | Today we talk about The Children's Hour (1961) and Tea and Sympathy (1956).
Our apologies for the sub-par audio quality on this one - we've got a better mic for future episodes!
Episode 2 airs on February 29, 2024. You want to see the films beforehand, watch Gosford Park (2001) and Knives Out (2019).I Lived like a Jane Austen Character for a DayLibby Stephenson2022-12-24 | 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Getting dressed 6:00 Correspondence 6:35 Breakfast 7:30 “Morning” activities 14:59 Luncheon 20:00 Day to evening transition 20:45 Dinner 22:12 After dinner tea and games 25:56 Theater 29:35 Supper 31:18 Conclusions
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonMay Wrap UpLibby Stephenson2022-06-21 | 0:00 Introduction 0:10 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (trans. Ina Rilke) 3:14 Lyra’s Oxford by Philip Pullman 4:01 Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 9:03 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
John Dryden’s Troilus and Cressida: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A36704.0001.001/1:6?rgn=div1;view=toc (the scene I mentioned is V.ii. Start at the line “What shall I say?”)
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonMarch/April Wrap UpLibby Stephenson2022-05-15 | 0:00 Introduction 0:21 Moby Dick by Herman Melville 4:53 Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pushkin, trans. Antony Wood 7:46 Serpentine by Philip Pullman 9:12 Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Upcoming BBC plays: Troilus & Cressida Julius Caesar Antony & Cleopatra
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonJanuary Wrap UpLibby Stephenson2022-02-04 | 0:00 Introduction 0:47 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan 3:06 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 4:49 Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh 7:07 The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman 13:02 Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonBest Books of 2021Libby Stephenson2022-01-20 | TWITTER: @libbylste
GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonDecember Wrap UpLibby Stephenson2022-01-18 | 0:00 Introduction 1:06 Rereads 2:19 His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman 7:44 Passing by Nella Larsen 8:36 Venetia by Georgette Heyer 13:54 Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells 14:58 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 18:10 Heavy by Kiese Laymon 20:36 The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart 22:27 A Separate Peace by John Knowles 25:30 What Was She Thinking (Notes on a Scandal) By Zoe Heller 28:17 The Spring of Joy by Mary Webb
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonNovember Wrap UpLibby Stephenson2021-12-17 | 0:00 Introduction 0:49 Nine Nasty Words by John McWhorter 4:39 Disfigured by Amanda Leduc 7:54 Gone to Earth by Mary Webb 10:33 Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England by Rachel Worth
Films: Heavenly Creatures Inherit the Wind Phantom Thread Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Persona Being John Malkovich The Death of Stalin Far North (2007) Amadeus Much Ado About Nothing (1993) Henry V (1989) The Hollow Crown: Richard II
Books: Das Kapital by Karl Marx Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata Barrier by Brian K Vaughan & Marcos Martin Nimona by Noelle Stevenson Annihilation of Caste introduction by Arundhati Roy Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Maurice by E M Forster Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R A Dick
Music: Riu Riu Chiu (English and French translations in description): youtube.com/watch?v=EJl6nSVVrlg Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach Alcina by Georg Handel Dorilla in Tempe by Antonio Vivaldi
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonShakespeare & Language | Part 3Libby Stephenson2021-11-24 | 0:00 Introduction 0:25 King Lear 3:35 Timon of Athens 3:54 Macbeth 4:13 Antony and Cleopatra 7:58 Pericles 10:59 Coriolanus 13:24 The Winter’s Tale 15:46 Cymbeline 17:34 The Tempest 18:27 Henry VIII
Books Mentioned: Nine Nasty Words by John McWhorter Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England by Rachel Worth Disfigured by Amanda Leduc
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonAugust & September Wrap UpLibby Stephenson2021-10-14 | 0:00 Introduction 0:47 Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas 4:26 It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas 6:07 Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas 8:27 Normal People by Sally Rooney 11:26 Feelings by Manjit Thapp 13:44 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo 14:31 Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 17:12 How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman 18:06 Precious Bane by Mary Webb
Books Mentioned: Bleak House by Charles Dickens The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Semi-Attached Couple by Emily Eden Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (A Drama in) Muslin by George Moore
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_Stephenson(Jane Austen) July Wrap UpLibby Stephenson2021-08-06 | 0:00 Introduction 0:28 Persuasion 0:49 Pride and Prejudice 1:02 A History of England 2:07 Catherine, or the Bower 2:41 Lesley Castle & Lady Susan 5:23 The Mysteries of Udolpho 6:19 Northanger Abbey 6:36 What Matters in Jane Austen
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonWhats Up with Georgian Novels?Libby Stephenson2021-07-30 | 0:00 Introduction 3:06 The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox 5:01 Evelina by Frances Burney 6:25 Belinda by Maria Edgeworth 7:25 A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald 8:52 The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 10:24 The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe 10:51 Caleb Williams by William Godwin 11:52 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 13:18 The Confessions of Justified Sinner by James Hogg 14:26 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 15:17 Harrington by Maria Edgeworth 16:00 Adeline Mowbray by Amelia Opie 17:02 Mary & Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft 17:26 Pamela by Samuel Richardson 18:51 Nature and Art by Elizabeth Inchbald 19:03 My recommendations
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonJune Wrap UpLibby Stephenson2021-07-11 | 0:00 Introduction 1:08 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 5:13 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid 10:20 Women's Work by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonShakespeare & Language | Part 2Libby Stephenson2021-06-18 | 0:00 Introduction 1:07 The Merchant of Venice 4:43 Much Ado About Nothing 6:12 The Merry Wives of Windsor 7:09 Julius Caesar 9:59 As You Like It 11:02 Twelfth Night 14:16 Hamlet 16:11 Troilus & Cressida 18:00 Othello 19:42 Measure for Measure 20:07 All’s Well that Ends Well
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonApril Wrap UpLibby Stephenson2021-05-11 | 0:00 Introduction 1:22 The Bear and the Nightingale & The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden 6:47 Death Note Vol. 4 & 5 by Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata 7:30 Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh 9:10 The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Books Mentioned: The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge Complete Poems of Wilfred Owen The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton Annihilation of Caste by B. R. Ambedkar with an introduction by Arundhati Roy The Ghost and Mrs Muir by Josephine Leslie writing as R. A. Dick Major Barbara & Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Maurice & Howards End by E. M. Forster The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Design for Living by Noel Coward The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Ingredients: 1 unbaked pie crust 1 onion, chopped 3 lugs olive oil 1 garlic clove, minced ginger, equal in portion to the garlic (can be minced or pureed) 1 lb (450 g) baby greens (I'm using baby spinach, arugula, and watercress) 1 handful fresh herbs (I'm using chives, mint, and oregano) 1 large handful soft cheese (I'm using cream cheese; you can use a semi-soft cheese, like mozzarella or burrata, but grate it first) 1 egg 1 small handful dried currants or raisins 1 pinch sugar salt and pepper, to taste sprinkling of nutmeg
1) Preheat your oven to 190 C (375 F). Bake the pie crust for 5 minutes. 2) Sauté the onion in the olive oil in a large pan over low heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. 3) Chop the greens and herbs roughly, removing any woody stems. 4) Add ginger and garlic to the pan, and let cook for 1 minute. 5) Turn the burner to high, wilt the greens and herbs. 6) Mix in the remaining ingredients. 7) Pour into pie shell, bake 30 minutes.
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonReadings Slumps and DepressionLibby Stephenson2021-02-22 | All of the "How to Get Over a Reading Slump" videos that I've seed (which is far from all of them), seemed to me to be missing the crucial fact that a reading slump could be a mental health symptom. It was not my intention at all to criticize any of these videos (I haven't watched one in quiet a while), but to provide an additional angle that may be forgotten.
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonJanuary Wrap UpLibby Stephenson2021-02-12 | 0:00 Introduction 0:17 The Secret History by Donna Tartt 5:47 Love’s Labours Lost by my main man, Will 6:53 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 12:37 The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken 16:39 Maurice by E. M. Forster 17:42 Death Note Vol. 1 by Tsugumi Ohba 18:54 Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonRichard III | Bard Book ClubLibby Stephenson2021-01-31 | Upcoming BBC schedule: Feb: The Merchant of Venice March: Romeo & Juliet April: Troilus & Cressida May: Julius Caesar June: Antony & Cleopatra
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_StephensonDecember Wrap UpLibby Stephenson2021-01-15 | 0:00 Introduction 1:37 Nevermoor & Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend 6:15 Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier 9:11 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin 11:24 Richard III by William Shakespeare 11:39 The Monkey’s Paw by Diane Mowat 13:19 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 14:20 The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe 15:07 The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells 17:23 My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite 20:20 Good Talk by Mira Jacob 20:50 Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespare 21:10 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 22:20 Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman 23:50 Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher
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GOODREADS: goodreads.com/author/show/7303573.Libby_Stephenson2020 Book HaulLibby Stephenson2021-01-11 | 0:00 Introduction 0:37 Kindred by Octavia Butler 1:45 Women's Work by Elizabeth Barber 2:53 What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan 4:49 Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher 6:37 The People in the Castle and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken 8:34 Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England by Rachel Worth 9:10 The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye 10:14 Annihilation by Caste by B. R. Ambedkar 13:36 Good Talk by Mira Jacob 16:52 Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain 17:51 In the Cities of Coin and Spice of Catherynne M. Valente