{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Fire the Canon","title":"Romeo & Juliet & Everything Else: A Conversation with Historian Ada Palmer","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4ac87914\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6380,"description":"We have a very special guest for you all today - Professor Ada Palmer, author of the recently-completed Terra Ignota series (one of Rachel’s favorites).  We invited her on to talk about Romeo & Juliet, but, as is customary with our guest episodes, the conversation went in some very surprising directions.  (However, we do recommend that you listen to our previous Romeo & Juliet episode first for context!)  Topics include: Machiavelli, the Black Death, a surprising amount of lice talk, pro-Columbus propaganda, Dante, witch trials, Viking geography, King Arthur fanfic, spurious knowledge, dowries, Lord of the Rings (of course), friendly nuns, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Game of Thrones, and Thomas Paine.\n\nCheck out: the Terra Ignota series, Ada’s appearance on the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, Romeo and/or Juliet, A Corresponding Renaissance, and the DVD box set of the 1980s BBC productions of all the Shakespeare plays.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ThbUCisdeEy3wffCIV0lqYlIfJsLXgCjMQ9ORkg9uZE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI5NDcyLzE2NDg2/NzQyODgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}