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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...against each other the friction of characters that's a difference between drama and an epic poem that don't dante can give you ambition and..."
Bromwich says Shakespeare gives a whole story of ambition deepened by the friction of characters rubbing against one another, while Dante gives the vice through shorthand background incidents, guilt, and punishment inside epic architecture.
Jiang says Plato uses the cave to argue that art, poetry, and drama are honored by humans but are lies because they belong to the shadow world.
"...against each other the friction of characters that's a difference between drama and an epic poem that don't dante can give you ambition and..."
"...is saying is that we may honor art and poetry and drama, but they're all lies, okay? Now, one day, for whatever reason, we..."
"...of course an ornate form compared to what Shakespeare does with drama um I'll tell you some things about Shakespeare uh and this this..."
"...we expected. There's no sense of relief. There's no sense of drama. We built all the way up, all right, to this canto, and..."
"...right? So I'm not sure if you've ever watched a Korean drama. Have you watched a Korean TV drama?"
"The same situation here where it's a silly television drama. It's all fake. Once people watch too much of it, they want it to..."
"...point out, is that eventually we'll get sick of all this drama and switch our attention elsewhere. And this is what happens, right?"
"...everything will be fine. I mean, it really is the greatest drama. It really is the greatest movie. And you can be a participant..."
"...so um he talks about the theater in athens okay the drama in athens or who wheresoever else it may have approached to"
"...cherish in it as a creation of their choice in a drama of the highest order there is little food for censor or hatred..."
"...wisdom let's create empathy let's create morality and that's why Greek drama is so important okay now let's look at another passage But tense..."
"...you. And this is going to create a lot of TV drama, which is what Trump thrives on. So that's also another quick, easy..."
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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