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Episode 136:
Having given you my own thoughts on âTitus Andronicusâ last time Iâm pleased to say that for this special guest episode I was able to take the discussion even further with Eleanor Conlon, a fellow podcaster and a theatre professional as you will hear Eleanor has a lot to say about the play and insights that, in some cases, go in different directions from what I was able to say about the play.
Eleanor Conlon is an actor, director, and award-winning writer based in Sussex.
After completing her BA in English Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, Eleanor earned her MA in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at Kings College and Shakespeareâs Globe. While at The Globe, Eleanor worked dramaturgically on productions by Dominic Dromgoole Matthew Dunster and Jeremy Herrin, and with Jenny Tiramani on the Original Practices Costume Archive.
After achieving success with her theatre company The Barefoot Players in the late 2000s and early 2010s, with which she produced plays including Tis Pity Sheâs a Whore, Doctor Faustus and The Alchemist, the latter two of which she also directed, as well as productions of several of Shakespeareâs works, plays by Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, and others, she founded her current and much acclaimed theatre company Rust & Stardust.
Writing over a dozen plays rooted in English folklore, Eleanor has worked with her puppet-maker partner Katie Sommers to tour Rust & Stardustâs shows all over the UK, including their plays The Wild Man of Orford, Black Shuck, The Marsh Demons of Iken, and Doctor Deeâs Daughter and the Philosopherâs with celebrated recorder quartet Palisander.
In addition to recent adaptations of Shakespeareâs plays including The Tempest and Macbeth with Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells, in 2023 she launched the Three Ravens Podcast with her partner Martin Vaux â also a writer and actor â which explores history, legends, and diverse aspects of folk culture.
Featuring original stories each week based on the lore of Englandâs 39 historic counties, Three Ravens quickly rose into the Top 1% of podcasts globally. It currently sits in the Top 50 UK Fiction Podcasts, with 4.9/5 star ratings on iTunes, Apple Podcasts and Spotify and a passionate fanbase across social media.
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For Rust + Stardust Theatre
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Episode 135:
Is Shakespeareâs early tragedy more than just a gore-fest?
The first performance of the play, maybe
The three playing troupes involved with the play
Is the play a collaboration with George Peele?
The popularity of violence in plays
The sources for the play
A brief summary of the play
The establishing of characters in the first act
The justifications for Titusâ desire for revenge
The role of young Lucius
The flaw in Titusâ character that leads to tragedy
Family life as represented in the play
The contrasts drawn between Lavinia and Tamora
The portrayal of fatherhood in the play
The use of Ovidâs âMetamorphosisâ
Shakespeareâs use of personification, borrowed from medieval morality plays
The extreme violence in the play
The Peacham Drawing
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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A short word from my good podcasting friend Peter Schmitz, he of the âAdventures In Theatre History Philadelphiaâ podcast, who has written a book on that very subject and Iâm sure that it will be as informative, as amusing and generally as fascinating as his podcast episodes always are. What is even better is that Peter has produced a short audio that gives you all the information you need about the book and how you can get hold of it. These links might be useful:
https://www.brooklinebooks.com/9781955041379/adventures-in-theater-history-philadelphia/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Theater-History-Peter-Schmitz/dp/1955041377/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FQHNN2ZJG5SE&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8oSl8huLrCxYxe1gR-WgMTKb62F56xPJLXJ49C4eLW52Njy6h53qTfk_QyAlISrCS1nBtjE5fP18rp_sk3gIYoPR7RAWKCe1UItqgZQpd-9PXkMqKB8ftKvQb9JhK0iqaMPdFPSCfo8AyM-8tvFcwNkejTFM0ThPPZlfC0KousFlD-3ZYd4wH6TjhApBJSBVy125ksgHOGMFVNkzSDVWzIz0g_2hLt5zWxDV81pmrfs.pPMmYdPY47WYuKoK1DNaM-yz5JQz_DXXrrqyiIMM2Zg&dib_tag=se&keywords=adventures+in+theatre+history&qid=1726229400&sprefix=adventures+in+theatre+history%2Caps%2C83&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Theater-History-Peter-Schmitz/dp/1955041377/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CNUES6XNBNLW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.IxlWUqR1nThHNR-GNJvuEjIo6f36mo82bS9_8A4Sx2PBGFys45ykLfXSgWrSIMpHJ0mn7qGooCMBFwWMv2nZqMK8rKgLgx9kTpDPQhHmqxigZbGPTyZ83Q5H5P2GQscDk4bNo7HYgM_9jXyO9EXcBSn0HZEqFpQmV_RWMmCXUSL4ld_Z22rnfxbih_CgyVUrMPqutRrwuii1_Hxe1fxx4hszZpQbw9dLxGUkrYUu2-Q.lr0Eg8P1HNDd9nfK-0DQttltOiAQaSpi0unC8HFtmZg&dib_tag=se&keywords=adventures+in+theater+history+philadelphia&qid=1726229447&sprefix=adventures+in+theatre+history+%2Caps%2C140&sr=8-1
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Episode 134:
Author Jem Bloomfield joins us to talk about his recently published book, âAllusion in Detective Fictionâ, which looks at how and why allusion to Shakespeare and the Bible was used by the masters, or I should say mistresses, of golden age detective fiction. This may not seem like an obvious area when considering the pervasive influence of Shakespeare, but as you will here the connections that Jem has made can tell us a lot about how knowledge and use of Shakespeare is constantly changing.
Warning â Spoilers present!
Jem discusses major plot points of several classic detective novels, but we thought that they can hardly be counted as spoilers up to about a century after they were first published, but you have been warned.
Link to Jem's book on the publishers website:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-58339-1
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Episode 133:
The complications with dating the play and itâs relationship with a similar Elizabethan play
The sources for the play
A short summary of the play
The Christopher Sly framing device
Switching of roles in the play
The disguise motif
The motivations of the leading characters
The implication of the falconry images in the play
The Elizabethan idea of a proper wife and correct behaviour
Similarities with Elizabethan âwife tamingâ ballads
The play as an inheritor of Roman comedy
The protagonists as stock characters
Katherineâs imbalance of the humours
Are Petruchio and Katherine a matched couple?
Do the three marriages resolve the play?
Does the play make a serious point about gender relationships in Elizabethan England?
The âdifficultâ final speech by Katherine
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Episode 132
My thoughts on seeing a recent production of Richard 3rd at Shakespeare's Globe, starring Michelle Terry in the titular role. The production and the cotrovercy that surrounded it raises questions about gender fluid casting, the nature of leadership and the casting of able bodied actors in this famous portrayal of deformity.
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Episode 131: Richard 3rd: âAnd Thus I Clothe My Naked Villainy.â
Shakespeare dramatises the life of the last Plantagenet king and create one of theatre's most spectacular villains.
The dating of the play
The quarto editions of the play
When is a history play a tragedy, or not?
The sources of the play
The influence of Seneca
Other contemporary versions of the Richard 3rd story.
The centrality of the character of Richard
A brief plot summary
The boldness of Richardâs actions
Richard as prologue and then guide in the play
Lady Anne and her reaction to Richardâs proposal
The influence of Marlowe on Richard 3rd
The role of the female characters in the play
How should we view the presence of Margaret in the play?
The curses and prophecy of Margaret
How deformity and old age can be seen to link Richard and Margaret
Richard afflicted by guilt
The theatricality of the play
Does our liking for Richard affect the morality of the play
What the lay can tell us about players and changes in Tudor society
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Episode 130:
Mathew Morris talk to me about the archaeological dig that resulted in the discovery of the final remains of Richard 3rd, which serves as a prelude to the next episode which will be all about Shakespeareâs take on the final Yorkist king. Towards the end of our conversation, we spoke about the differences between the Richard of the play and what the skeletal remains that were uncovered tell us about the real-life king, but most of the conversation is about how the remains were discovered, recovered for analysis, and how they were proved to be the remains of Richard 3rd.
Mathew Morris is a Project Officer at the University of Leicester Archaeological Service with over a decade of archaeological experience, having excavated a wide range of rural and urban archaeology across the Midlands, from the prehistoric period through to the Second World War. His specialisms include urban archaeology, community archaeology and Roman and medieval archaeology.
Mathew graduated from the University of Leicester in 2003 with a BA in Archaeology and an MA in Landscape Studies, joining ULAS in 2004. Notable projects include a massive multi-period urban excavation at Highcross in Leicester that included excavation of Roman town houses, commercial buildings, two lost medieval churches and medieval cemeteries and a Roman cemetery at Western Road in Leicester, and, of course in 2012 he directed the successful archaeological search for the lost grave of King Richard III. Recently, he has been digging up more Roman buildings and mosaics in Leicester, at the former Southgates Bus Depot and All Saints' Brewery sites and is currently leading the archaeological work for the Leicester Cathedral Revealed project.
He has co-authored the most comprehensive book ever written on the archaeology of Leicester - 'Life in Roman and Medieval Leicester' (2021) and three popular archaeology books: 'Visions of Ancient Leicester' (2011), 'Richard III: The King under the Car Park' (2013) and 'Roman Leicester: Life in the Roman World' (2018). He is actively involved in promoting archaeology to the general public, regularly providing talks to local societies, and is a Committee member of the Leicestershire Fieldworkers, and a Branch Leader for the Leicestershire Young Archaeologistsâ Club. He also currently leads the Castle Hill Community Archaeology Dig and the Bosworth Links Community Dig.
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Episode 129:
A brief recap on the dating and sources of the play
A brief synopsis of the play
The problem of multiple battlefield scenes and the depiction of violence
How language in the play is used to underline the changing fortunes of the two sides.
The depth of strong characterisation in the play
Warwick, the would-be kingmaker
Henry as an early humanist
Fathers and sons at war with each other
The revenge motive running through the play
A brief recap on the role and character of Margaret
The development of the character of Richard
The question of the extent if Richardâs deformity
Did the play resonate with the contemporary audience?
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Episode 128:
Author John Taplin discusses researching the Stratford families of Shakespeare's time and particularly the ancestry of John Hall, Shakespeare's son-in-law.
John Taplin spent the majority of his career in management in the telecommunications industry until 2001 when he joined the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust at Hallâs Croft and Nashâs House/New Place in Stratford-upon-Avon, until retiring in 2010. A historian, genealogist and biographer, he has published articles on Shakespeare, his contemporaries and associates in and around Stratford, including the families directly associated with New Place.
Shakespeareâs Stratford home, before and after Shakespeareâs lifetime. In 2011 he published his book Shakespeareâs Country Families - A Documentary Guide to Shakespeareâs Country Society. He was a member of the Advisory Board for the Trustâs Dig for Shakespeare project at New Place between 2010-2015, and in 2018 he published a revised and updated edition of his 2011book. He has a Masters degree in historical studies from the University of Leicester.
Links to John's ebook:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Twenty-first-Century-Shakespeare-Gleanings-Taplin-ebook/dp/B0CC633JY2/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.UlnFY8UInwIYfhuJf0AiXmtXTQSRHcN9Ativ9cOIX_PGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.4xAoLuO1JQQ2o0LumK9U_Hjq703MON6NOQVolv2BSr4&dib_tag=se&qid=1721225584&refinements=p_27%3AJohn+Taplin&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=John+Taplin
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Episode 127:
A recap of Henry VI part one and the potential involvement of Christopher Marlowe
A word on methods of authorship attribution in the context of Shakespeare and Marlowe
The dating and sources of the play
A synopsis of Henry VI part two
The characterisation of the War of the Roses
The decline of England mapped out in the play
The main characters in the play
The weakness of the king as portrayed in the play
The powerplay between Gloucester, York and Margaret
Margaret as a central character in the play
The use of language to define different characters
The contrast between Henry and Margaret
The Jack Cade rebellion and the utopia of a classless society
Gloucester and the view of justice-based government
How the world depicted in the play might have been viewed by the first audiences
The historical accuracy of the play
The arrival of Richard, future king, on stage
The performance history of the play
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Episode 126:
A conversation with Dr. Darren Freebury-Jones, author of 'Shakespeareâs Borrowed Feathers' about the influence of early modern playwrights on Shakespeare where we talk about Marlowe, Kyd, Greene and others and the role of data analytics in modern author attribution studies.
Dr Darren Freebury-Jones is author of several works on early modern theatre including:
Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeareâs Rival
Shakespeareâs Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd
and his latest work Shakespeareâs Borrowed Feathers, will be published in October 2024.
Darren is Associate Editor for the first critical edition of The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd since 1901. He has also investigated the boundaries of John Marstonâs dramatic corpus as part of the Oxford Marston project and is General Editor for The Collected Plays of Robert Greene published by Edinburgh University Press. His findings on the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries have been discussed in national newspapers in the UK and on BBC Radio. His debut poetry collection, Rambling published by Broken Sleep Books, was published in 2024. In 2023 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of his contributions to historical scholarship.
Links to 'Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers'
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177322/shakespeares-borrowed-feathers/
https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeares-borrowed-feathers-playwrights-greatest/dp/1526177323/ref=sr_1_1?crid=94S4BGF6FW1K&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pfj-18kdWvHO-sbFvYC3sw.Bx51-kXl5CIuz42hJHAOTCZs4KerccNu9A8tK9wC0Tc&dib_tag=se&keywords=shakespeare%27s+borrowed+feathers&qid=1720274180&sprefix=shakespeares+borrowed+feathers%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-1
Link to Darren's on-line talk on Robert Greene 22nd July 2024 in aid of the Rose Playhouse
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/63856?
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Episode 125:
A detailed look at the first Shakespearean history play 'Henry 6th part 1'
The problems with dating 1 Henry VI
How much of the play did Shakespeare write?
The relationship of the play to parts 2 and 3
The sources of the play
A brief summary of the play
The play in relation to other history plays of the time
Criticism of the battle scenes
The theme of the loss of the English Empire and the end of chivalry
The portrayal of Joan and the French
The portrayal of the English aristocracy
Problems with the structure of the play
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Episode 124:
A conversation with Margaret Oakes about the book 'To Gender or Not to Gender: Casting and Characters for 21st Century Shakespeareâ which explores ways in which gender is being reinterpreted by British and North American productions since the turn of the millennium. After an initial chapter outlining recent gender theory, which is very useful to a newcomer to this as an academic study, like myself, the rest of the book uses examples of recent productions to illustrate different possibilities in cross gender casting, and the questions that this approach can lead to. I found it to be an absolutely fascinating read, driven by Margaretâs enthusiasm for her subject, which you can also hear in our conversation.
Margaret J. Oakes is a Professor of English at Furman University, a liberal arts college in Greenville, South Carolina. She specializes in early modern British poetry and drama and detective fiction. She holds a B.A. in English and a J.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. in English from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in English and Humanities from Stanford University. She has published on George Herbert, Francis Bacon, J.K. Rowling, Sara Paretsky, and Dorothy L Sayers.
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/to-gender-or-not-to-gender/
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Bonus Episode 36:
Sometimes things conspire against the podcaster, as has happened to me in the last couple of weeks, meaning that I have not been able to get the promised episode up to scratch in time. To make up for this and fill the gap I have created an episode that goes back to Greek theatre. It looks at that most mysterious of the ancient Greek forms, the satyr play and two of the men who were instrumental in vastly increasing our knowledge of these things.
The place of the satyr play in the history of Ancient Greek theatre
The satyr play as part of the Dionysia festival
The satyr play as a counterpoint to tragedy
The later history of the satyr play
âCyclopsâ by Euripides
The discovery of âTrackersâ by Sophocles
The paperologists Hunt and Grenfell
The finds at Oxyrhincus
Arthur Huntâs speech to the Egyptian Exploration Society
(including the plot of Trackers)
The Hypsipyle tragedy by Euripides, also in the Oxyrhincus finds
The Bacchae as a satyr play
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Episode 123:
The Origins of New Place
The Cloptonâs of Stratford-Upon-Avon
The first house at New Place
Hugh Clopton and his support for Stratford
William Clopton
William Bott and murder at New Place (maybe)
William Underhill sells New Place to Shakespeare
William Underhill and his son Faulk (another murder)
The New Place of Shakespeareâs time
The question of how much time Shakespeare spent in New Place
The gardens of New Place
The house passes through Shakespeareâs family after his death.
New Place is rebuilt
Shakespeare and the New Place mulberry tree
Francis Gastrellâs eventful time at New Place
Jame Halliwell-Phillips purchases New Place and commences archaeological works
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is created
Further Archaeological work and the renewal of the site in the 21st century
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Episode 122:
The fourth and final part of the biography of Shakespeare.
The rise of Shakespeare as actor and playwright for the Lord Chamberlainâs Men.
âThe Comedy of Errorsâ performed at Greyâs Inn, âthe night of errors.â
The influence of the inns of court.
Plays for special occasions.
Francis Meresâ comments on Shakespeare.
Shakespeareâs involvement in a legal summons.
The move from The Theatre to The Globe.
The opening of The Globe.
The sharers at The Globe.
Shakespeare lodging on Silver Street and his involvement with the Mountjoy family.
Shakespeareâs interests in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
The death of Hamnet Shakespeare.
New Place â Shakespeareâs home in Stratford.
Shakespeareâs business interests in Stratford.
The accession of James 1st and the creation of the Kingâs Men.
The Kingâs Menâs record of performance at Court.
The Kingâs Men take on the indoor Blackfriars Theatre.
Shakespeare buys a house near the Blackfriars Theatre.
The last works with collaborators.
The burning down and rebuilding of The Globe.
The last years in Stratford.
The death of Shakespere.
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Episode 121:
For this episode Iâm very pleased to welcome Katherine Sheil, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota for the second part of our conversation about Anne Hathaway, based around her book âImagining Shakespeareâs Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathawayâ.
In this part we went on to talk about the different views of Anne in fiction and non-fiction through the centuries. The breadth of views are quite astounding and we try to unpick how some of these at lease could have come about.
Katherine is a leading expert on Anne Hathaway and her legacy to history so, following on from the recent episodes about Shakespeareâs ancestry and early life in Stratford and London this was a perfect opportunity to talk to Katherine, and if you have not done so already you should probably listen to all the preceding season six episodes before returning here.
Katherine Scheil is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of several books about Shakespeare, including The Taste of the Town: Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theatre; Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama (with Randall Martin); She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America; Imagining Shakespeareâs Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway; Shakespeare & Biography (with Graham Holderness); and Shakespeare & Stratford. She is finishing a book on the history of women and Stratford-upon-Avon, and a book about Shakespeare and biofiction, called Father Shakespeare. She was one of the co-editors of the recent Annethology: Poems Re-Presenting Anne Shakespeare. Her work on the epitaph of Anne Shakespeare in Holy Trinity Church will be coming out later this year with Cambridge University Press.
Links to Katherine's latest books, available from any bookshop.
www.cambridge.org/9781108404068
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/anne-thology
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Episode 120:
The lost years of Shakespeareâs early life have given space for some myths and legends to grow over the centuries, before we can trace a few facts of his early life in London.
The myth of Shakespeare and the Crab-tree.
The myth of Shakespeare the deer slayer.
Nicholas Rowe â the first editor of Shakespeare.
The Queenâs men in Stratford.
The myth of Shakespeareâs early days in London.
Was Shakespeareâs first London home in Shoreditch?
Tracing Shakespeareâs moves through London via tax records.
London in the late 15th century.
The âupstart Crowâ comment
Shakespeareâs growing popularity with the Henry 6th plays and others.
Shakespeare the poet: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.
Shakespeare finds a patron â The Earl of Southampton
The formation of the Lord Chamberlainâs Men and Shakespeareâs part in it.
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Episode 119:
For this episode Iâm very pleased to welcome Katherine Sheil, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. Katherine is Author of several books about Shakespeare, but today we particularly talk about her book about Shakespeareâs wife called âImagining Shakespeareâs Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathawayâ. It is a fascinating examination of the known facts of Anneâs life and of how her persona has been used and abused through the centuries, as a means of examining and justifying views of Shakespeare, but also about how Anne has been viewed in her own right.
Katherine is a leading expert on Anne Hathaway and her legacy to history so, following on from the last podcast episode about Shakespeareâs early life and marriage this was a perfect opportunity to talk to Katherine, who adds much nuanced thought and detail to the subject of Anneâs life, which adds to the basic facts I detailed last time, so if you have not listened to that episode yet itâs probably a good idea to do so before returning here.
Katherine Scheil is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of several books about Shakespeare, including The Taste of the Town: Shakespearean Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theatre; Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama (with Randall Martin); She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America; Imagining Shakespeareâs Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway; Shakespeare & Biography (with Graham Holderness); and Shakespeare & Stratford. She is finishing a book on the history of women and Stratford-upon-Avon, and a book about Shakespeare and biofiction, called Father Shakespeare. She was one of the co-editors of the recent Annethology: Poems Re-Presenting Anne Shakespeare. Her work on the epitaph of Anne Shakespeare in Holy Trinity Church will be coming out later this year with Cambridge University Press.
Links to Katherine's latest books, available from any bookshop.
www.cambridge.org/9781108404068
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/anne-thology
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