SoS # 62 | David Kastan: Shakespeare and Rembrandt

Published 2024-06-30
Video broadcast at    • SOS #62 | David Kastan  . This is a talk with David Kastan of Yale University about his career and about what Shakespeare has to do with art and color. It features his forthcoming book on Shakespeare and Rembrandt.

00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:42 - Accident, chance, adventure, and scholarship
00:12:45 - Shakespeare and Rembrandt
00:31:25 - Art that makes you stop
00:44:37 - What is beauty in art and poetry? Paying attention
00:56:35 - Shakespeare and religion, translations
01:08:32 - On Color
01:20:15 - Closing: The prospect of beauty

All Comments (2)
  • @tomlucia6143
    what do you to people who say that francis bacon wrote the the plays often attributed to shakespear