Nudie Reads

Joseph Grimaldi was England's beloved clown sensation. People laughed til they cried at his antics. And for one month he wowed them in 2 separate theatres every night. If only he had a clown car. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤡🎭🫖🇮🇹 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads

12 Aug 202111min

William Shakespeare is the G.O.A.T. 38 plays and over 150 sonnets, all of them quotable and deeply moving. While "Et Tu, Brute?" is probably not original to him, the rest of the play Julius Caesar is. Marc Antony's speech at Caesar's funeral definitely is. It's a triumph of sorrow and anger. 🇬🇧🐐❤️😡😞 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads

8 Aug 202114min

Why is St Valentine's Day associated with romantic love? Could the kooky Roman festival of Lupercalia have been the inspiration? Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Lives of the Saints, won't say in his word perfect entry on St Valentine. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🫖📿♥️🐺 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads

5 Aug 202112min

Mrs H.R Haweis wrote Chaucer for Children: The Golden Key in 1877 for her little boy Lionel. A Victorian scholar, writer, painter, illustrator and women's vote advocate Mary Eliza Haweis was a prolific author who could make even crusty old 14th century Chaucer a fascinating subject and a reader's delight. 🇬🇧⛪️🍻👣 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads

1 Aug 202122min

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley knew her monsters. She was beloved as the author of Frankenstein. But she was also beloved as a skilled researcher and historian. She authored 5 volumes of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia all about famed men of science and literature. Her entry on Galileo and his the monstrous trial by the Inquisition at Rome in 1633 is a masterpiece. 🇬🇧😈🇮🇹🔭⛪️🍷 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads

29 Juli 202126min

Cyrano de Bergerac was a real swashbuckling duellist of 17th Century France. And he wrote one of the world's first ever fully-fledged sci-fi stories. The 19th Century play about him and the Hollywood adaptation 'Roxanne' starring Steve Martin are great. But the real fellow was not just a big-nosed pretty face. He was a great writer. 🇫🇷🗡🤺✍️🌝🌞

25 Juli 202128min

O. Henry was the nom de plume of William Sydney Porter, a gem of an American writer active around the turn of the 20th century. Very active, in fact: over 300 short stories, and most of them containing his signature feature - the plot twist. The Ransom of the Red Chief is a particular gem. No spoilers. Enjoy. 🇺🇸✍️📝🌳💰 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads

22 Juli 202130min

Malleus Maleficarum or The Hammer of the Witches was the infamous 15th Century witch-hunters' bible. A treatise on trying, sentencing and expiring witches that was disavowed by the Vatican within 4 years of its publication but somehow it stayed a popular best seller for almost 200 years. It's a humourless and illogical masterpiece of sheer bombastic persuasion - written from the standpoint that demons, witches and the devil are all real. Mad. 🇩🇪⛪️📖🏹🧙👺 Get in touch: Email: nudiereads@gmail.com Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Instagram: instagram.com/nudiereads Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nudiereads

20 Juli 202123min