The Classic English Literature Podcast

"You taught me language": Shakespeare's The Tempest

M. G. McDonough Season 1 Episode 63
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For our (probably) final episode on Shakespeare's plays, we sail through The Tempest, a late romance which has attracted historical and psychoanalytical interpretations, but stands out for many readers as perhaps a play in which a version of Shakespeare himself appears as the protagonist.  

Audio clip from The Tempest ; 2004 Naxos AudioBooks.  Taken from The Internet Archive

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