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
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.
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.
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.
Dan and Kevin return to everyone's favorite Shakespeare party game, WILL, ACTUALLY, to discuss the most obvious themes in ROMEO AND JULIET.
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)
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin prepare for Thanksgiving by assembling a Shakespeare-inspired holiday pot luck menu.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.