Shakespeare's Shapeshifters: Falstaff, Puck, and the Golden Bough (with Mason Winfield)

from Animal Magic · host j. SNODGRASS

To celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday, I'm joined by Mason Winfield, Western New York's Premier Paranormalist, to discuss Shakespearean faerie-lore, Falstaff's downfall in the Merry Wives of Windsor, and how it relates to the Classical Myth of Actaeon and Diana, and Sir James Frazer's book The Golden Bough.

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