Archive - Evening under Lamplight Podcasts 13: Walt Whitman's Civil Wa

Series 13.2, Whitman's Civil War

How do you respond to a major defeat? What happens to the war fever? Two poems showing undefeated soldiers, then the account of the flight of men back…

Jul 4 •

18:20

June 2025

Series 13.1, Whitman's Civil War 1

We hear Whitman's account of the war fever hitting New York at the start of the Civil War, a fever that Whitman celebrated in prose and poetry, the…

Jun 30 •

12:06

Series 13.0, Whitman's Civil War, Introduction

We introduce the latest series of the Evening under Lamplight Podcasts with a brief look into Whitman as he visited the sick and wounded and dying…

Jun 23 •

6:44

May 2025

Series 12.37, Twelfth Night V.1e

The play concludes somewhat inconclusively as we come to the end of Series 12, attending to the final, humiliated appearance of Malvolio, and Feste's…

May 12 •

21:12

Series 12.36, Twelfth Night V.1d

The recognition scene at last, and the couples sorted out in the right way. All is resolved - or almost all.

May 5 •

20:45

April 2025

Series 12.35, Twelfth Night V.1c

An interlude with the injured, and aggrieved Andrew and Toby, and one minal misunderstanding before things finally might become clear for them all.

Apr 28 •

13:25

Series 12.34, Twelfth Night V.1b

A quick-paced dance, three characters pairing off in different combinations, trying to deal with a mystery that distresses and angers them, but that we…

Apr 21 •

16:20

Series 12.33, Twelfth Night V.1a

The start of a series of encounters, bringing more complications before the final resolutions. Here we dance from Feste & Fabian to Feste & Orsino to…

Apr 14 •

14:48

Series 12.32, Twelfth Night IV.3

A short scene, continuing the question of madness, but with a more surprising and, probably, satisfying resolution.

Apr 7 •

13:10

March 2025

Series 12.31, Twelfth Night IV.2

The climax of the Malvolio subplot, a practical joke that doesn't really hold up.

Mar 31 •

12:00

Series 12.30, Twelfth Night IV.1

Ready for yet more confusion, with both violence and what I suppose we must call surprised delight.

Mar 24 •

13:49

Series 12.29, Twelfth Night III.4d

More complications, and real danger mingling with and compromising the comic misunderstandings as we come to the end of Act III.

Mar 17 •

19:14

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