Anecdotal Shakespeare
b'The curses associated with the Scottish play. Using a real skull for the Yorick scene in "Hamlet." Over the centuries, these and other fascinating theatrical anecdotes have attached themselves to the plays of William Shakespeare.\\n\\nMany of these stories have been told and re-told, over and over, century after century \\u2013 with each new generation inserting the names of new actors into the story and telling the story as if it just occurred. So \\u201cOne night David Garrick was backstage\\u201d becomes, \\u201cSo one night Edmund Kean was backstage\\u201d which then becomes, \\u201cSo one night Richard Burton was backstage.\\u201d And so on. \\n\\nOur guest, Paul Menzer, is a professor and the director of the Shakespeare and Performance graduate program at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. His book "Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History" was published by Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare in 2015 He was interviewed by Neva Grant. \\n\\nFrom the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. Published September 20, 2016. \\xa9 Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. \\u201cTruths Would Be Tales, Where Now Half Tales Be Truths\\u201d was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. Esther French is the web producer. We had technical help from the News Operations Staff at NPR in Washington, DC.\\n\\nhttp://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/actor-anecdotes'