SOS #62 | David Kastan

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Published 2024-06-30

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 (7)

@annakulova8772 3 days ago

I had been about to do something quite different. And your ideas and humour made me stop:-) and stuck:-). Thank you! Wonderfully spent evening.
@augustamcdermott2112 10 days ago

Thank you so much. This has been a lovely and fascinating conversation to listen to. A honing of my attention- beautiful, reflective and generous style of thinking aloud. I've sourced a seam of new reading in David Kastan and new listening in this series. Thank you.
@king_cobra5492 14 days ago

Interesting. Thank you
@yuqijiang5903 12 days ago

Great stories of Prof Kastan's life lol. Thank you!
@artieash6671 14 days ago

Speaking of Shakespeare? A bit. A bit.
@gerhardrohne2261 14 days ago

at last, these self-portraits where not painted by the earl of oxford? waffle on...