Steve Reads – Episode 2: Steve Will Fight You Over Shakespeare
Added 2021-06-07 16:01:02 +0000 UTCSteve reads sonnets from Shakespeare and breaks them down the way he did for his ninth graders.
STEVE READS is a Patreon-exclusive series from DeepNerd Media. People have said for over a year now that they’d listen to Steve Shell, narrator of Old Gods of Appalachia, read the phonebook, cereal boxes, or whatever other mundane text he could lay hands on. Welp. Here you go, Family.
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I know it's been years since this was released, but I think this is my favorite episode so far of anything outside the story itself. Thank you teach!
2023-12-14 14:01:24 +0000 UTCI always hated the things we were forced to read. Until I was made to read Shakespere in 7th grade. And I just thought it was so beautiful and real. Also, damn, why couldn't I have had you as my English teacher? Might have paid a bit more attention (says the math/science inclined student)
2023-12-10 21:47:11 +0000 UTCThe number of ways and places Steve will fight a body to defend Billie S is awesome.
2022-07-17 12:28:23 +0000 UTCShakespeare was one of my favorites to study in high school english. Guess its part of why I'm drawn to Bards so much
2022-07-13 19:12:08 +0000 UTCWorth joining patreon to hear Shakespeare described as 48 possums in a trenchcoat
Rhiannon
2022-02-08 08:02:53 +0000 UTCYou are reading this with conviction like the preacher from my childhood church in Alabama.
2021-11-12 03:20:43 +0000 UTCI honestly cannot express how much joy this post brought me. I am certain I would have loved to have been a student of yours Mr Shell, I have always enjoyed Shakespeare and my bachelor's degree in English literature with a concentration of British lit from Shakespeare to the victorians was vindicated and validated by listening to this post in particular, as I really enjoyed hearing you break down Mr Bill's sonnets. Some of the best illusionatory writing in the English language in my opinion and it is gratifying to know someone who agrees! Please please can we have more sir?
Nichol Miller
2021-09-19 10:31:20 +0000 UTCI'm so glad someone else loves Shakespeare! Please read from Macbeth! I'm an 8th grade ELA teacher and I miss being in high school, where I had the pleasure of teaching my favorite play and sonnets. I've taught this one, too ;)
2021-09-10 15:26:19 +0000 UTCIndeed. Looking forward to more.
Jay Eilers
2021-08-01 02:03:13 +0000 UTCMore Shakespeare please. Amazing.
Cynthia Parker
2021-07-24 19:57:15 +0000 UTCThat sounds awesome!
2021-07-20 18:10:44 +0000 UTCNext time you do something like this I’d love it if you could include the “it is a tale told by an idiot” monologue from Macbeth? It’s my favourite
2021-07-01 01:43:34 +0000 UTCThere’s a great reading of sonnet 116 on YouTube in a reconstructed Shakespearean accent. Proved and loved both have a sound kind of like the oo in book. It makes sense if you imagine Sean Bean saying it!
2021-07-01 01:37:47 +0000 UTCI pray that Your absence from school teaching is filled severalfold by those you have inspired to such levels of passion and erudition... We're grateful you're living the dream now, but those are serious shoes to fill!
Chris Strum
2021-06-22 17:37:41 +0000 UTCThat first sonnet you read is my dad's favorite poem in the world. He taught it to me when I was very small, and I still remember it to this day. If I ever love someone I'm going to recite it for them.
Kathryn Sowinski
2021-06-21 02:13:14 +0000 UTC
