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The Shakespeare podcast Shakespeare would have listened to! This weekly podcast comes in several flavors. Every other week, you'll get our regular episode features a lightning round on several intersections of Shakespeare and the present day, an underused Shakespearian phrase that you can roll into your everyday conversation to impress/annoy your friends, and a homework assignment currently being blown off by a lazy high school student from the internet. Once a month, we offer SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE SHAKESPEARE, a half-hour briefing on a specific play to listen to on your commute to the theater that will prepare you to be the best little audience member you can be. And in the fourth week of the month, Dan and Kevin will provide some Shakespearian wildcard programming that will almost certain result in them swearing at each other. (we assume.)
Dan and Kevin return with our new favorite recurring Wildcard episode where we go into the field and ask civilians a series of increasingly difficult Shakespeare trivia questions.
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Are you on the way to see a production of ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week, 'cha boys put on their sorting hats as they select Quidditch teams from each of Shakespeare's character houses - Tragedies, Comedies, and Histories.
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This week we’ll divine souls, tackle advice, and break down the recent article from TheLeafDesk,com claiming that South African forensic scientists have concluded that Shakespeare was an avid user of marijuana.
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Inspired by the hit podcast Song Exploder, Kevin and Dan spend this episode breaking down and analyzing Shakespeare's Sonnet #113.
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;
And that which governs me to go about
Doth part his function and is partly blind,
Seems seeing, but effectually is out;
For it no form delivers to the heart
Of bird, of flower, or shape which it doth latch:
Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,
Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch;
For if it see the rud'st or gentlest sight,
The most sweet favour or deformed'st creature,
The mountain or the sea, the day or night,
The crow, or dove, it shapes them to your feature.
Incapable of more, replete with you,
My most true mind thus maketh mine eye untrue.
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Are you on the way to see a production of THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we'll uncover and lap, sing a song for seven ages, and defend Patriots defensive end Chase Winovich who captioned a recent Instagram post with a quote from Julius Caesar and had six-time Super Bowl champion and greatest quarterback of all time Tom Brady reply by writing, "Study your playbook."
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Dan and Kevin debut what will hopefully be a recurring Wildcard episode where we go into the field and ask civilians a series of increasingly difficult Shakespeare questions.
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Inspired by the hit podcast Song Exploder, Kevin and Dan spend this episode breaking down and analyzing Shakespeare's Sonnet #60.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow: And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. www.noholdsbard.com noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com
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Dan and Kevin return to everyone's favorite Shakespeare party game, WILL, ACTUALLY, to discuss the most obvious themes in AS YOU LIKE IT.
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This week we’ll bear all, end Mackers, and provide a detailed review of the inaugural “Cage in the Park” presentation of a Shakespearian theatrical version of the 1999 movie Face/Off presented in Prospect Park in Brooklyn last weekend.
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Are you on the way to see a production of THE WINTER'S TALE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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With World Cup fever in full swing, 'cha boys break out their football kits and pull together Shakespeare's soccer starting eleven.
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This week we’ll investigate a new kind of theme, host Heaven (for real this time), and offer our services to be adjunct professors for UC Irvine’s new online coursed, cleverly titled “English 9: Shakespeare.”
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To celebrate two hundred episodes of NO HOLDS BARD (!), Dan and Kevin take an hour to inform artistic and casting directors around the globe about the ideal cameo roles to cast these two Shakespearian social-media influencers in order to really pump up those subscription sales. All acting offers for both Dan and Kevin can be directed to noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com; operators are standing by.
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This week we'll host heaven, criticize society, and take a long hard look at ourselves and what it means that a Microsoft researcher has created a program that uses artificial intelligence to map out emotions in Shakespeare's text.
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Are you on the way to see a production of PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll take time with Time, bug you, and finally weight in with a well-considered take on the Shakespeare authorship question that has kicked up once again over the past month or so.
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This week, 'cha boys put the "card" in "Wildcard" as they populate Shakespeare's casino.
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After populating the hockey team (episode 17), boys baseball team (episode 42), girls baseball team (episode 94), fantasy football team (episode 64), and casting this year's musical production of 1776 (episode 56) at Shakespeare High, Dan and Kevin cap off their March Madness excursion into the hardwood by recruiting Shakespeare High's basketball team.
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This week we’ll stay you, share our favorite reprieves, and see what kind of deal we can get to rent a “flat” on the site of the recently confirmed spot in London where Shakespeare lived while writing at the Globe.
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Dan and Kevin return to everyone's favorite Shakespeare party game, WILL, ACTUALLY, to discuss the most obvious themes in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
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Are you on the way to see a production of MACBETH? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we'll be foolishly mortal, trace techniques, and celebrate the return of Free Shakespeare to Bryant Park with the Drilling Company's upcoming free musical celebration of Shakespeare, Sing Him Home.
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Inspired by the hit podcast Song Exploder, Kevin and Dan spend this episode breaking down and analyzing Shakespeare's Sonnet #116.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Dan and Kevin get back to their draft roots as they alternate choosing the top Act One, Scene Ones in Shakespeare's canon (boom).
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This week we’ll have naughty times, disguise for a measure, and figure out how a couple of low-brow Americans can grab a guest spot on the new BBC series Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Detectives, with the first mystery to solve being how we’ve never heard of this show.
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We got a request to do more of Billy's poetry on the pod, so here's William Shakespeare's "A Lover's Complaint" in it's entirety. Be careful what you wish for
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This week we’ll acknowledge darkness, analyze Leontes’ hotness, and get excited for this summer’s recently announced New York City Shakespeare in the Park production of that old Shakespearian classic, Disney’s Hercules.
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This week we’ll poison delight, compare deaths, and lead the #Bardflies on a guided tour of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s recent Virtual Reality production of Hamlet, which they’re calling “Hamlet 360: Thy Father’s Spirit”
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In this Very Special Episode, we are joined by Ben Crystal as we pity truly, rep the Canon (boom), and break down the recently released short film Squad Leader 73028, where a storm trooper recites Hamlet's soliloquy on a desert planet for some reason.
Special thanks to Ben Crystal for joining us for this episode. You can follow Ben on Twitter @bencrystal.
This episode is dedicated to Sir Theodore Freebish Beaulieu III.
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Are you on the way to see a production of THE TEMPEST? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll amend what is done, discuss bad decisions, and discuss in great length all the best moments we had writing up this year’s Patreon cards to all those pledging #Bardflies.
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For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin cast ten of the most dearly departed of 2017 in their first Shakespearian roles at The Pearly Gate Repertory Theater.
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Are you on the way to see a production of HENRY VIII? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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For this month's Wildcard episode, your boys get back to their holiday traditions and turn twelve of your favorite Christmas carols into Shakespearian sonnets.
Performed by Dan Beaulieu and Kevin Condardo. Written by Dan Beaulieu.
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This week we’ll be the happy some, object to marriage, and discuss at great length the false majestic Roman nose Kenny Branaugh is rocking while playing Shakespeare himself in the upcoming film ALL IS TRUE.
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This week we’ll explore madness, decide if all is in fact well, and begin preparing our screen tests as we angle to earn a spot in Al Pacino’s upcoming film adaptation of KING LEAR.
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For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin are taking the Everyday Shakes segment, where they pull a phrase from Shakespeare and show you how to use it in your everyday conversation, and escalating to the next level with some more advanced phrases that you can't use everyday...but could definitely use sometimes!
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Are you on the way to see a production of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll see cherubs, visually imagine, and try to understand on David Buchanan managed to create a .jpg of Shakespeare’s face on Twitter that doubles as a zip file containing the Complete Works.
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Are you on the way to see a production of KING JOHN? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll blow feathers, examine gender, and get to the bottom of the recent survey taken by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art where 31% of children aged 11 to 18 were unable to identy Shakespeare as a playwright from a list of celebrities.
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This week we’ll definitely live, trouble our legacies, and reserve our ticket to San Weng, Fuzhou, China, where the local government has recently gained the approval of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to create the first copies of the houses in which Shakespeare was born and died.
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Are you on the way to see a production of DOUBLE FALSEHOOD? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll get to it anon, search for sympathy, and bring in our crack legal team to dissect the newly found documents that show Will’s father John Shakespeare was harassed by Crown informers, which very well may have influenced Will’s attitude towards power and class (aka that dang gub’mint).
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Dan and Kevin finally attempt a Wildcard episode they've been dreaming of since the podcast started - a Mystery Science 3000 / RiffTrax-style commentary track to the episode of 90's kids show WISHBONE - PRINCE OF WAGS where Wishbone finally took on Shakespeare. To maximize your listening experience, you can watch the episode in real time with us; the version we viewed is available on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_rf6s5h2-g. www.noholdsbard.com noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com
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For this month's Wildcard episode we throw ten duel questions at Will Sutton, memorizer of all 154 sonnets, mad genius behind iloveshakespeare.com and shakespearekaraoke.com, and actual friend (and listener!) of the podcast.
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This week we’ll live free of shame, shoot on some heroine, and dive deep on the brewing brouhaha the New York Post reported on this week between the Public Theater and the Federal Aviation Administration regarding helicopters interrupting Shakespeare in the Park.
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Are you on the way to see a production of TIMON OF ATHENS? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll woo with urgency, shine the green light on King Lear, and break down a few of the 2600 new sonnets created by a sonnet writing bot created by researchers at IBM Research Australia, the University of Toronto, and the University of Melbourne.
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Dan and Kevin go through the top fifty Shakespeare characters (based on line load) and create their individual Top 25 power rankings of which roles are the most impressive to play.
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This week we’ll rough it out, seek motivation, and tip our cap to Ian McKellan and his retirement from Shakespeare, as he has promised his current run of King Lear will be his final spin with the Bard (and no one ever goes back on saying they’re retired from one specific type of performance).
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Are you on the way to see a production of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll sin, question a sequel, and pat Tom Hanks on the back for riffing on Shakespeare for four minutes, here on hour 125 or so of our original Bard-related BS.
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Are you on the way to see a production of HENRY VI PART THREE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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Inspired by Good Tickle Brain's Shakespeare World Cup 2018 (https://goodticklebrain.com/home/2018/6/7/shakespeare-world-cup-2018-the-teams), the boys put on their best sports radio voices and break down the brackets to decide who they think would bring home the Bard's gold.
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Dan and Kevin welcome special and long overdue guest Christine Penney as the three discuss the highs and lows of the Seven Stages Shakespeare Company's Antoniad, a continuous one-day, seven-ish hour presentation of the plays linked in the Antonio fan theory we discussed way back in Episode 21 - Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, and Much Ado About Nothing.
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This week we’ll pluck up, explore Juliet’s options, and apologize profusely for our two-weeks absence from your podcast dials.
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Inspired by a request from Emily Gams, the boys create a chain of motifs linking all 38 plays in the Canon one by one.
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This week we’ll negotiate fair terms, gain from reading, and celebrate our 154th episode by breaking some legitimate Shakespeare news based on recent discoveries from your boys at NHB. www.noholdsbard.com noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com
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We keep our monthly Wildcard episode but so-so this week as we take a trip down memory lane to revisit our favorite Duel answers from Episodes 49-70.
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For this month's Wildcard episode we throw ten duel questions at Ben Crystal, co-writer of Shakespeare's Words and The Shakespeare Miscellany, author of Shakespeare on Toast - Getting A Taste for the Bard, explorer of original practices in Shakespeare rehearsal and production, producer, actor, and actual listener of the podcast. You can check out Ben's work at the recently revised ShakespearesWords.com or his personal website at bencrystal.com.
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Inspired by the hit podcast Song Exploder, Kevin and Dan spend this episode breaking down and analyzing Shakespeare's Sonnet #40.
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;
All mine was thine before thou hadst this more.
Then, if for my love thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest;
But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty:
And yet, love knows, it is a greater grief
To bear love’s wrong than hate’s known injury.
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes.
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This week we’ll be brained madly, explore gateway Shakespeare, and dig in on the text of the eighth Shakespearian Star Wars adaptation, Jedi the Last, which came out this month.
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Are you on the way to see a production of HENRY VI PART TWO? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we'll add water to the sea, become tragic avengers, and give our reviews of the 113-second video in which Andrew Scott makes it through 12.5 lines of verse that is taking the Shakespeare internet community by storm.
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Are you on the way to see a production of HENRY VI PART ONE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll will our causes, find a common theme, and go after Shakespeare for reports that he himself may have annotated a copy of the 16th century copy of one of the source texts for Hamlet, since we came up with annotating copies of Shakespeare plays first.
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For this month's Wildcard episode we throw ten duel questions at Madeline Sayet, a recipient of the White House Champion of Change award and a member of the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. You can find Madeline at https://www.madelinesayet.com.
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This week we’ll power our ifs, go gulling, and offer our tutoring services to Tom Hanks in advance of his upcoming Los Angeles theater debut as he takes on Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV.
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For this month's Wildcard we're trying out a new format - Prose and Verses. In each P&V episode, one of the boys will take a controversial position on a Shakespearian matter and the other will defend what is perceived to be the popular opinion on the issue in a Lincoln-Douglas-inspired long-form debate
For this inaugural attempt at Prose and Verses, the case on the docket is "K. Condardo v. The Queen Mab Speech."
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This week we’ll riddle you this, melt some solid flesh, and introduce our brand new spinoff podcast about George North, the author from the 1570s that Shakespeare apparently stole up to twenty monologues throughout the canon from as discovered by plagiarism software this week.
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Are you on the way to see a production of THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll derive knowledge, sell a king, and see which of our U.K. listeners will be the first to send us the two pound coin commemorating Shakespeare’s histories put out by the Royal Mint in 2016 and yet still not in either of our possessions.
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Dan and Kevin return to everyone's favorite Shakespeare party game, WILL, ACTUALLY, to discuss the most obvious themes in ROMEO AND JULIET.
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For this month's Wildcard, we are joined by four of our nearest and dearest to draft five institutional Shakespeare theater seasons from the canon - with each play being pulled from everyone else's board once it is selected. We tried this for the first time back in Episode 90 - so here we go for round two!
Special thanks to our brave and brilliant guests:
Jenn Deon (persistencetheatre.com)
Brett Elliott (kingsmenshakespeare.org)
Mya Gosling (goodticklebrain.com)
Lesley Schisgall Currier (marinshakespeare.org)
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This week, we'll like them apples, explore if there is a second thing to talk about in Midsummer, and await our royalty check from the Silicon Valley Shakespeare Company who just last week put on a 48-hour play festival called ShakesSports, an event with the teaser: "The MacBeths playing hockey? Midsummer Fairies having a hand at a tennis match? King Lear playing quidditch? Our writers will explore what happens when sports gets thrown into a Shakespeare classic."
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This week we’ll see is’t real, get drummers drumming, and plot how we’re going to squeeze our way into the relationship between Second Sight Spirits and Froghammer Shakespeare, who just collaborated to release a hazelnut liqueur called “Queen Mab” that we don’t understand why we haven’t received a courtesy bottle of yet.
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Are you on the way to see a production of CYMBELINE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin cast ten of the most dearly departed of 2017 in their first Shakespearian roles at The Pearly Gate Repertory Theater.
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This week we’ll folly and be ignorant, identify a symbol, and get real indignant regarding The Guardian’s list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books Of All Time listing The First Folio at #97 overall.
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Are you on the way to see a production of HAMLET? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll withstand rage, seek morality in man, and break down in great detail the genealogical analysis that proves American Meghan Markle, Prince Harry’s new fiancée, is Shakespeare’s fifth cousin 13 times removed. www.noholdsbard.com noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com
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This week we’ll o’erweigh truth, do some homework homework, and unveil NHB’s official play-at-home game designed to accompany Tina Packer’s upcoming talk on 25 Sex Acts in Shakespeare.
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For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin prepare for Thanksgiving by assembling a Shakespeare-inspired holiday pot luck menu.
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Are you on the way to see a production of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll get giddy, see Lear better, and give our unbiased ear to Alexander Waugh’s recent assertation that he can prove that William Shakespeare was actually Edward de Vere based on encryptions in the title and dedication pages of Aspley’s edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets of 1609.
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We keep our monthly Wildcard episode but so-so this week as we take a trip down memory lane to revisit our favorite Duel answers from Episodes 27-48.
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This week we’ll confuse flora and fauna, reign in chaos, and contrast Coriolanus, and rate the headline puns written to cover the firing of now-former Leicester City Football Club manager Craig Shakespeare.
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For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin take all the characters that have been selected to Shakespeare High to date via The Shakespearian Hockey League (episode 17), Shakespeare League Baseball (episode 42), 177Shx (episode 56), Shakespeare Fantasy Football (episode 64), and the All-Shakespeare Girls Professional Baseball League (episode 94) and sort them into their respective Hogwarts houses.
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Are you on the way to see a production of HENRY IV PART TWO? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll inform against occasion, contrast Coriolanus, and pop the bubbly on Will’s behalf to celebrate the New York Times’ report that Shakespeare in Love will be the most produced play in the United States during the 2017-2018 theatrical season.
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For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin invite all the #Bardflies to join them at their neighborhood bar as they share a pitcher and discuss the Seven Stages Shakespeare Company's upcoming production of THE WINTER'S TALE that Dan will be directing this fall.
(And if this is your first episode - NHB promises there's much less background noise, though not necessarily any more sobriety, in the rest of the catalogue.)
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This week we’ll have a season of absence, navigate circumstance in Elsinore, and Kevin will offer an extended and heartfelt apology for all the mean things he’s ever said about England and France after his week on the Continent.
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Are you on the way to see a production of HENRY V? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll trouble our brains, foil Queen Mab, and defend the University of Southern California’s definitely-intentional choice to spell Shakespeare without the final “E” on a statue at the centerpiece of their recent $700 million facility upgrade.
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For the second Wildcard episode of the month, Dan and Kevin discuss the pilot episode of TNT's new series WILL, a show that "tells the wild story of young William Shakespeare's arrival onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th century London."
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Dan and Kevin return to everyone's favorite Shakespeare party game, WILL, ACTUALLY, to discuss the most obvious themes in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
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This week we’ll delight in violence, catch the Scottish King, and reach out to the director of Torn Out Theater to see why Dan and I weren’t called in to audition for the currently running “nude, all-male, body-positive” outdoor production of HAMLET currently running in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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Are you on the way to see a production of RICHARD III? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll bear excuse, try the Merchant of Venice, and unveil our plans for a new Shakespearian-style history play titled “The Most Lametable Comedy And Most Cruel Firing Of Anthony Scaramucci.”
This week's episode features a reading by Alice Langby.
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In response to Abigail Pore's tweet...
"#EnglishMajorProbs Trying to figure out meter with your Shakespeare bff @LydiaHuth Hey, @NoHoldsBardCast how about a wildcard episode?"
...your Shakespeare BFFs Dan and Kevin take a crack at iambic pentameter for your listening and learning pleasure.
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This week we’ll reflect on our late life, bring childlike wonder to Illyria, and take inspiration from the RSC’s plan to monitor the heart rates of audience members at their upcoming production of Titus Andronicus by hooking each other up to lie detectors and asking each other questions we’ve kept under wraps for fifteen years.
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Are you on the way to see a production of HENRY IV PART ONE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we'll sour on digestion, assess jealousy, and get in line for the Shake-speare Shake that Shake Shack will be offering at their Upper West Side location during the upcoming Shakespeare in the Park production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.
For this week's Wildcard episode, we staff The Shakespeare Diner. (We strongly recommend enjoying this episode on a full stomach.)
Inspired by the hit podcast Song Exploder, Kevin and Dan spend this episode breaking down and analyzing Shakespeare's Sonnet #23.
As an unperfect actor on the stage,Who with his fear is put beside his part,Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;So I, for fear of trust, forget to sayThe perfect ceremony of love's rite,And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,O'ercharged with burthen of mine own love's might.O! let my looks be then the eloquenceAnd dumb presagers of my speaking breast,Who plead for love, and look for recompense,More than that tongue that more hath more express'd. O! learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
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This week we’ll expose ourselves to wretches, work out the ABCs of Julius Caesar, and take some time to expound upon the fine, fine folks at Delta and Bank of America who suddenly find themselves with a glut of money in their arts budget this summer and nowhere to send it (may we suggest patreon.com/noholdsbard?).
Are you on the way to see a production of RICHARD II? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we'll outstare the lightning, love naturally, and chastise the error made in Britain's English Literature GCSE exam (basically their SAT) on the question which was written, "How does Shakespeare present the ways in which Tybalt's hatred of the Capulets influence the outcome of the play?".
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For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin come up with the full slate of attractions for America's new favorite fictional theme park, ShakespeareLand.
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This week we’ll get well breathed, try to wrap our heads around what a “conscience” is, and send along our notes to Jordan Monsell, whose recenty published book “Ministers of Graace: The Unauthorized Shakespeare Parody of Ghosbusters” tells the story of the original Ghostbusters in iambic pentameter and Shakespeare’s vocabulary.
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Are you on the way to see a production of CORIOLANUS? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
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This week we’ll banish you, sport Shakespeare, and celebrate our 100th episode by finally doing all the third things we’ve been teasing in our openers since episode one.
This episode features a reading from Ryan Salvato.
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For this month's Wildcard we have our very first live episode, recorded in Brooklyn on Shakespeare's 453rd birthday. This episode is also available as a Facebook Live video on our facebook page at Facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast. Special thanks to Dani Lencioni and Drew Broussard of EVELYN for the live acoustic performance of our theme song. Check them out at http://ohevelyn.com or buy their album at https://ohevelyn.bandcamp.com.
This week we’ll sweep vainly, grow up with a sea monster, and check in with the 56-year old teacher from a prestigious Manhattan public school who was recently found guilty of attempting to seduce his sixteen-year-old student by buying her beers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and then quoting Shakespeare before asking if he could kiss her. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
Are you on the way to see a production of TITUS ANDRONICUS? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
This week we'll make a point about Romeo and Juliet, bend Shakespeare over, and cash in on the Shakespearian notebook we submitted to Antique Roadshow that is of "enormous scholarly value." noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
With Wrestlemania coming up this Sunday, and inspired by the words of the first Unified Champion "Y2J" Chris Jericho, Dan and Kevin illustrate the similarities between professional wrestling and Shakespeare.
After populating the hockey team (episode 17), baseball team (episode 42), fantasy football team (episode 64), and casting this year's musical production of 1776 (episode 56) at Shakespeare High, Dan and Kevin celebrate spring by filling the roster of the women's baseball team with the female characters of the canon (boom).
This week we'l acquaint some bedfellows, try Hermione, and rally around director Robert Icke's claim that British Shakespeare has been "poisoned" by the "bizarre" overacting of an older generation of thespians (shots fired!). noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
Are you on the way to see a production of JULIUS CAESAR? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
This week we’ll gaze, drop rhymes so tight we become immortal, and share a really cool idea about a new collaboration we have in place where…oh. Apparently it’s going to be produced at the Public Theater now. Rats.
For this month's Wildcard, we are joined by five of our nearest and dearest to draft six institutional Shakespeare theater seasons from the canon - with each play being pulled from everyone else's board once it is selected. Hopefully that's interesting! Special thanks to the brave guests for this week's experiment: Sarah Enloe americanshakespearecenter.com Madeline Sayet madelinesayet.com Charlene Smith bravespiritstheater.com Kristin Clippard kristinclippard.com Joe Pine ohioshakespeare.com
This week we'll pause, seek a greater meaning despite all being well, and break down the video of rapper Big Sean's performance in a middle school production of THE TEMPEST. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
Are you on the way to see a production of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
This week we'll hunt the lion, seek the dystopian linings in the Scottish Play, and explore the New Oxford Shakespeare Journal’s claim that Hamlet may actually have been written in 1603 as a way to impress James I rather than in 1601 where it had been previously dated noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
For this month's Wildcard episode we throw ten duel questions at Mya Gosling, the artist and author of the Shakespeare webcomic Good Tickle Brain ("the world's foremost and very possibly only stick figure Shakespeare webcomic"). You can find Mya at GoodTickleBrain.com, on Patreon at patreon.com/goodticklebrain, on Twitter @GoodTickleBrain, and on Facebook at Facebook.com/goodticklebrain.
This week we'll slip the world, seek justice in Venice, and check in with Laurie Davidson, star of TNT's WILL, regarding his quote that the show "takes that dusty thing in history books called William Shakespeare and drags him kicking and screaming into this century," which is a pretty bold claim for a show that will be cancelled before the end of its first season. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
Are you on the way to see a production of MEASURE FOR MEASURE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
This week we’ll make a scarecrow of the law, find meaning in Comedy, and check in with some students from Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to check out the algorithm for author attribution that revealed this month that Shakespeare had a co-author on many of his plays.
For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin cast ten of the most dearly departed of 2016 in their first Shakespearian roles at The Pearly Gate.
In what's becoming a holiday tradition here at No Holds Bard, we're happy to give you this year's Christmas gift: Dr. Seuss' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS converted to iambic pentameter. It was either this or a sweater, so we hope you like it. Performed by Dan Beaulieu and Kevin Condardo Written by Dan Beaulieu
This week we’ll silently rejoice, do what we will with Twelfth Night, and remove Shakespeare from our podcast and replace him with poet Audre Lorde, as Penn students did this week when they removed a gigantic portrait of the Bard from the central staircase of their English building to “more fully represent the global media that are now studied."
Are you on the way to see a production of TWELFTH NIGHT? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
This week we’ll get ready, relate to a King, and give notes on incoming White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s abandoned screenplay adaptation of Titus Andronicus titled simply "Andronicus" that features Titus as the leader of an intergalactic army on a mission to save Planet Earth and who are forced to take human form when their mission goes awry. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
In this month's Wildcard episode, we share some ideas for holiday gifts for the Shakespeare lover in your life. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
This week we'll use adversity, trap tragic disaster, and guess what else Shakespeare's actors didn't clean up after themselves backstage so that archaeologists could find it during their work earlier this month at the Curtain.
Are you on the way to see a production of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
This week we'll be wish'd for, see who is willing to be had, and extend an invite to Emma Rice to swing by to Duel with us during her newly-discovered free time.
For this month's Wildcard episode, we sit down for an in-depth interview with the director of the first American-originated production of Jonathan Bates' play BEING SHAKESPEARE.
This week we’ll forget and forgive, review Richard’s motivations, and connect with Christopher Marlowe’s agent to see how he negotiated co-author billing for his client this week on the upcoming Oxford University Press editions of the Henry VI plays.
Are you on the way to see a production of KING LEAR? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
This week we'll cast grief shadows, examine a royal entourage, and speculate on what exactly will go down in the upcoming issue of the comic DEADPOOL where the title character "goes Shakespeare," whatever that means.
Dan and Kevin invent and play a new parlor game for Shakespeare fanatics called WILL, ACTUALLY, with the hope that it will sweep the nation and yield many tweets with high viral potential.
In this episode we'll see you what you are, turn on the green light, and dig into the new research reported on LiveScience.com this week that shows monkeys with brain implants are able to type out sections of Hamlet.
Are you on the way to see a production of OTHELLO? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
This week we'll see spiders, compare eulogies, and play Shakespeare Charades with Tom Hiddleston on Twitter using the hashtag #charadespeare.
Inspired by the hit podcast Song Exploder, Kevin and Dan spend this episode breaking down and analyzing Shakespeare's Sonnet #97. How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness every where! And yet this time remov'd was summer's time, The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, Bearing the wanton burden of the prime, Like widow'd wombs after their lord's decease: Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me But hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, the very birds are mute; Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.
After populating the hockey team (episode 17), baseball team (episode 42), and casting this year's musical production of 1776 (episode 56) at Shakespeare High, Dan and Kevin turn to the gridiron to each draft their Fantasy Football teams with the remaining characters from the canon (boom).
This week we'll see fair and foul days, tread on the ground, and beg for comp meals for Shakespeare Chicago's Culinary Complete Works, where 38 of Chicago's most talented chefs each translate one of Shakespeare's plays into a featured dish, menu, or event at their restaurant.
Are you on the way to see a production of AS YOU LIKE IT? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
This week we'll explore other worlds, sympathize with He Who Shall Not Be Named, and examine the similarities between Ted Cruz's comments on Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention and Mark Antony's comments on Brutus at Julius Caesar's funeral.
We keep our monthly Wildcard episode but so-so this week as we take a trip down memory lane to revisit our favorite Duel answers from Episodes 11-26.
This week we'll dissemble our discontents, decide who deserves to rule the island, and extend an offer from the Seven Stages Shakespeare Company to pick up the homeless Hamlet production currently wandering aimlessly around NYC.
Are you on the way to see a production of TROILUS AND CRESSIDA? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
This week we’ll go wise and slow, analyze dream analysis, and take a deeper look at the marketing strategy Shakespeare employed when applying for his coast-of-arms in 1596, as elaborated on in documents recently uncovered by Sylvia Morris at The Shakespeare Blog.
After populating the hockey team (episode 17) and baseball team (episode 42) at Shakespeare High, Dan and Kevin turn to the Drama Department to cast a production of Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards' 1776 with characters from Shakespeare's canon. This episode features what we believe to be the only "U-S-A!" chant to ever appear on a Shakespeare podcast.
Dan and Kevin debrief on three major things each they learned after the Seven Stages Shakespeare Company one-day, twelve hour presentation of eight of Shakespeare's histories (Richard II, Henry IV 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI 1, 2, and 3, and Richard III). After this one we probably won't talk about the histories for a while, so enjoy!
This week we'll instruct how to do ill, step outside of Shakespeare for a moment, and read each and every one of University of Toronto associate professor Hogler Syme's 500+ tweet take-down of what he describes as the "tremendously awful" new book THE ONE KING LEAR by Sir Brian Vickers. This week's episode features a reading by Christine Penney of the Seven Stages Shakespeare Company.
Are you on the way to see a production of LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
This week we'll do so-so work, love not at first sight, and respond to the recent all-nude Central Park production of THE TEMPEST by recording an all-nude episode of No Holds Bard.
For an upcoming Seven Stages Shakespeare Company one-day, twelve hour presentation of eight of Shakespeare's histories (Richard II, Henry IV 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI 1, 2, and 3, and Richard III), Dan and Kevin have been tasked with cutting four of the plays apiece and haven't yet had the chance to debrief about their cutting experience. They also needed to come up with something to post as a Wildcard episode for this week. Thus, this half hour. Enjoy!
This week we'll flex our homely wits, view historical protagonists, and go after Ian McKellen for coming on to our corner with his new Shakespeare app. To celebrate our fiftieth episode, we also took some time at the end to answer questions about ourselves, which we won't do again for at least another fifty. We promise.
Are you on the way to see a production of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
This week we'll speak what we feel, assess entitlement, and come to grips with the realization that former NFL running back Eddie George played the title role in OTHELLO and JULIUS CAESAR at the Nashville Shakespeare Festival. This week's episode features a reading from Cali Gilman (www.caligilman.com) and Kalen J. Hall (www.kalenjhall.com).
In this month's Wildcard episode, we pay our respects to Prince. This episode features a reading from CJ Lewis, as recorded during the Seven Stages Shakespeare Company's Shakespeare Beat Night at The Press Room in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on April 21, 2016.
This week we'll be true to ourselves, make much ado about current events, and send out the last round of invitations for the birthday party we're throwing for Billy this weekend. This week's episode features a reading by Kevin's dad, Tom Condardo.
Are you on the way to see a production of ROMEO AND JULIET? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
This week we hear acted sins, dream on gender, and Dan will fiddle a bit regarding when he went down to Georgia.
This week we highlight the Shakespearian qualities of that Broadway hit about the second most accomplished Federalist in American history, HAMILTON.
In this week's episode, Dan and Kevin create their 25-man Opening Day baseball roster from Shakespeare's canon.
This week we'll brave the world of rare words, find comedy in a tragedy, and Kevin will give Dan the traditional Ides of March experience.
Are you on the way to see a production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
This week we'll scorch snakes, objectify Feste, and eagerly await the results of a scan taken this week of Shakespeare's grave at Holy Trinity Church to see what's in there without disturbing anything - hopefully for their sakes the curse on his tomb respects technicalities...
In this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin take you behind the scenes as they cut one of the most famous scenes in the canon for performance.
This week we'll work man, put a price on friendship, and outline Simon Andrew Sterling's argument that Shakespeare had a secret bastard son, as outlined in his new book Shakespeare's Bastard.
Are you on the way to see a production of ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
This week we'll never forget, chain our being, and give Dan all the time he needs to wax poetic about his trip to this year's Shakespeare Theater Association conference this past week.
We keep our monthly Wildcard episode but so-so this week as we take a trip down memory lane to revisit our favorite Duel answers from Episodes 1-10.
This week we'll curse our enemies and our friends, seek a magical turn, and share the synopsis of our spec script for TNT's recently announced drama pilot WILL which chronicles Shakespeare as he moves through his mid-twenties.
Are you on the way to see a production of THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
This week we'll try to sell you on six of our favorite Shakespeare books. Featured are...
THE YEAR OF LEAR: SHAKESPEARE IN 1606 by James Shapiro SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICA edited by James Shapiro SACRED ART OF SHAKESPEARE: TO TAKE UPON US THE MYSTERY OF THINGS by Martin Lings THINKING SHAKESPEARE by Barry Edelstein SHYLOCK: A LEGEND AND ITS LEGACY by John Gross KILL SHAKESPEARE by Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery
Here's your Christmas gift from your friends at No Holds Bard: Clement Clarke Moore's A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS converted to a Shakespearian monologue in iambic pentameter. It was either this or socks, so we hope you like it.
Performed by Dan Beaulieu Written by Kevin Condardo
Are you on the way to see a production of THE WINTER'S TALE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
In response to an @bwestcineaste tweet asking "What's the ideal order in which to tackle playing The Big Parts?", Dan and Kevin spend this month's wildcard week identifying The Big Parts for both an actor and an actress and coming up with the ideal order to tackle them.
Are you on the way to see a production of PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
In this month's wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin share their favorite Shakespearian fan theories, including who the Scottish witches may have been in a previous life, what makes Malvolio such a stickler for the law, and who Beatrice's father may have been (based on NO HOLDS BARD's groundbreaking Unified Antonio Theory).
Are you on the way to see a production of MACBETH? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
In this week's episode, Dan and Kevin draft their starting hockey lineups from Shakespeare's canon. If you're not a hockey fan, we'll see you next week when we return to our regular programming.
Are you on the way to see a production of THE TEMPEST? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.
This episode we'll dish on the ladies of Elsinore, reminisce on when we were young and naive, and reveal our plan to steal the original First Folio that will be touring the U.S. in 2016.