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The Shakespeare Mindset

The Shakespeare Mindset

By: Dave Cohen
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 Stuck in a rut? Scared of change? Stressed about the world? Anxious for yourself and your loved ones? Know what, more than 400 years ago everyone felt the same way only without the comfort of light bulbs, central heating and sticky toffee pudding. William Shakespeare wrote about it all - and offered many answers to all kinds of modern questions such as what can we do to conquer our fears, how do we find true love and what does it mean to be human? He also asked: to be or not to be? We're still working on that one. My name's Dave Cohen - comedian, author and Horrible Histories lyric writer turned Shakespeare fanboy and I'm here to tell you that there are only two ways to deal with life's problems - the hard way or the Bard way.

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  • Feeling Uncertain? Listen To This...

    Feeling Uncertain? Listen To This...
    Apr 7 2026
    "Present fears are less than horrible imaginings." Only one thing is certain about this world - uncertainty. True 425 years ago. True now.

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    28 mins
  • Living With Grief

    Living With Grief
    Mar 31 2026
    "Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break." There's no right or wrong way to deal with grief, but as the man says if we want to move forward we need to acknowledge it.

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    24 mins
  • My Country Right And Wrong

    My Country Right And Wrong
    Mar 24 2026
    "This England never did nor never shall Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself." As a teenager in the 1970s battling racism I'd always thought of Shakespeare as the embodiment of English nationalism. In this delightful episode Michael Dobson, head of the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon, explains why I couldn't have been more wrong.

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    42 mins
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