In this episode we'll get into background for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", focusing on Greek mythology as a source for the setting and the characters of Theseus and Hippolyta. We'll explore Theseus in particular, a popular and central character in Greek myth who did a lot more than defeat Daedalus' maze and King Minos' Minotaur, and we'll look at his fatal flaw, saucy nature, and his "wooing" of Hippolyta, the Amazon Queen. 

We'll also talk a bit about how Shakespeare wrote this comedy as a mash-up of not just Greek myth, but of European folklore and the contemporary England of his day. And, of course, we talk about how this play is just one big excuse to make butt jokes. For real.

It'll be bawdy and raucous, of course, so come along!