{"id":6886,"date":"2020-08-25T18:42:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T22:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=6886"},"modified":"2022-08-30T19:16:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T23:16:41","slug":"shirine-babb-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=6886","title":{"rendered":"Paul Sugarman"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1799\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6886-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/stateofshakespeare\/www.stateofshakespeare.com\/TSS\/Media\/PaulSugarman.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/stateofshakespeare\/www.stateofshakespeare.com\/TSS\/Media\/PaulSugarman.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/stateofshakespeare\/www.stateofshakespeare.com\/TSS\/Media\/PaulSugarman.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links 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class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image.png?resize=488%2C680&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6891 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image.png?w=488&amp;ssl=1 488w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image.png?resize=50%2C70&amp;ssl=1 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"font-size:27px\"><strong><strong>King Lear: Act 2, Scene<\/strong> <strong>2 <\/strong><br><strong>Kent<\/strong> <br><strong><strong>August 28, 2020<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"486\" data-id=\"6887\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/039PSheadshot.jpg?resize=695%2C486\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/039PSheadshot.jpg?w=1077&amp;ssl=1 1077w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/039PSheadshot.jpg?resize=70%2C49&amp;ssl=1 70w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/039PSheadshot.jpg?resize=1024%2C716&amp;ssl=1 1024w, 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Most recently, he is bringing Shakespeare to life with the <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespeareinc.com\/instant-shakespeare-company.html\" title=\"http:\/\/shakespeareinc.com\/instant-shakespeare-company.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instant Shakespeare Company<\/a>.  In this rousing interview, Mr. Sugarman discusses his company, using the First Folio and Shakespearean insults.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Click here to <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=6915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"King Lear:  Act 2, Scene 2\">follow along with the text<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Click here for a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=8237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"King Lear; Act II, Scene ii: First Folio\">First Folio version of the text.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before &#8220;quarantine&#8221; and &#8220;social distancing&#8221; and &#8220;Zoom&#8221; were household words we were just beginning to grasp the impact of the sudden shuttering of our theatres.  Shirine shares her thoughts on how to survive the times, the production of Timon of Athens and shares Queen Margaret&#8217;s infamous speech from Henry VI, Part 3.<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=6886' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,5,254],"tags":[757,218,217,925,923,22,14,926,721,27,66],"class_list":["post-6886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-interviews","category-podcasts","tag-acting-shakespeare","tag-gerritt-vandermeer","tag-jim-elliott","tag-kent","tag-paul-sugarman","tag-playing-shakespeare","tag-shakespeare","tag-shakespeare-insults","tag-text-work","tag-textual-clues","tag-the-state-of-shakespeare","category-10-id","category-5-id","category-254-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/039PSheadshot.jpg?fit=1077%2C753&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Frfq-1N4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6886"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8239,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions\/8239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}