Much Ado About Something with Tathagata

In the first season's finale, the podcast takes a look at Shakespeare's legacy and why everyone has the right to question its aspects.

What if William Shakespeare had a sister who was an equal match to him in everything? What would a regressive, misogynist society's reaction be to a genius woman? In her seminal feminist text, "A Room Of One's Own", the legendary Virginia Woolf proposed this hypothesis in order to argue for the equal place for woman writers in the pantheon of literature. This episode looks at Woolf's hypothesis about Judith Shakespeare, the poet who is still alive inside everybody.

The episode goes in deep to discuss Shakespeare's portrayal of Lady Macbeth. The Bard at times seems highly progressive in how he writes her, but frustratingly falls back to gender-specific stereotypes. Till the last syllable of recorded time, arguments will go on. Lady Macbeth remains iconic. A celebration of her supremacy, and of her towering over the Bard himself.

As the pilot episode of this series, the host provides an array of different aspects regarding Shakespeare which will be the centre of discussion of this podcast - the Bard's successes and failures, his impact, adaptations and more.