Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast: Episode 7 Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (or What You Will) – Part 1

Welcome to the 2023 Ramsay – Campion Great Books Podcast Series.

“If Music be the food of love, play on…” We turn now to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (or What You Will), a romantic comedy with tragic undertones, about the glories and vagaries of love, mistaken identity, fulfillment and loss.

In this podcast Dr Stephen McInerney, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Western Tradition at Campion College is joined by Dr Colin Dray, Lecturer in Literature at Campion College, together with Dr Kishore Saval, Senior Lecturer in the Western Civilisation Program at Australian Catholic University.

In this episode we consider a range of topics, including narcissistic love, the blurred and porous boundaries between the self and the other, and whether desire is something we ‘hunt’ or by which we are hunted. What are the comic and possibly tragic results of the disguises we adopt, for ourselves and others? And what are the consequence for someone who desires but is not desired in turn.