MashReads Podcast: Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' is basically 'Survivor'

"Now I will believe that there are unicorns." Us too, Shakespeare, us too.
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"O, brave new world, that has such people in't!"

2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. To celebrate the bard, this week on the MashReads Podcast, we read Shakespeare's The Tempest -- a magical journey that includes the line, "Now I will believe that there are unicorns." Sign us up!


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Join us this week as we talk about The Tempest, common Shakespeare tropes and our favorite plays from the bard.

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MJ Franklin was an Assistant Editor at Mashable and a host of the MashReads Podcast.

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