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.
[For a second opinion, click here to listen to our original So You’re Going To See The Winter’s Tale episode.]
With World Cup fever in full swing, 'cha boys break out their football kits and pull together Shakespeare's soccer starting eleven.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
[For a second opinion, click here to listen to our original So You’re Going To See PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE episode.]
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.
This week, 'cha boys put the "card" in "Wildcard" as they populate Shakespeare's casino.
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.
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.
Dan and Kevin return to everyone's favorite Shakespeare party game, WILL, ACTUALLY, to discuss the most obvious themes in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
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.
[For a second opinion, click here to listen to our original So You’re Going To See Macbeth episode.]
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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”
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.