Hamlet to Hamilton: Exploring Verse Drama

Hamlet to Hamilton: Exploring Verse Drama

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  • S2 E1: The Earliest King Arthur: Thomas Hughes' "Misfortunes" (1587)

    Welcome to Season Two: "Arthur Through the Ages," where we'll be looking through King Arthur-inspired English language verse plays from 1587-2019.  Welcome season cohosts, Nick Ritacco and Colin Kovarik, as we jump into our first play, The Misfortunes of Arthur by Sir Thomas Hughes, written in 1587.

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    1 hr
  • S1 E10: Silences, Spacing, Stage Directions & Shared Lines

    We're finishing our survey of the Tool Boudoir with a look at silences, spacing, stage directions and shared lines, as we come to the end of Season One of Hamlet to Hamilton!

    Featuring verse from: Hamlet and King John by William Shakespeare, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, The Lifted Instants Before the Fall by Becca Musser, The Other, Other Woman, Cupid and Psyche, and The Siege Perilous by Emily C. A. Snyder

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    2 hr 9 min
  • S1 E9: The Rules of Emotive Formatting

    HOW do you use spelling, typography, punctuation, and spacing to imply cadence? Don't worry. It's sooooooooooooo easy.


    This week we look at the rules of emotive formatting: rules that are available not only to verse playwrights, but to anyone who's writing anything!

    Featuring verse from: "may i feel said he" by e. e. cumming

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    1 hr 44 min
  • S1 E8: First Folio and Emotive Formatting

    It's time to talk Emotive Formatting (part of the Tool Boudoir), starting with Shakespeare's First Folio!  And who better to help us out, than our own  Esther Williamson, speaking about how punctuation can completely alter  the clarity of a moment of a play.


    Featuring verse from: Henry IV and The Tempest (William Shakespeare)

    Featuring the voices of:

    • Esther Williamson
    • Learn more about Esther's masterclass on Macbeth

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      1 hr 21 min
    • S1 E7: What's My Line (Ending)?

      What happens when you get a bunch of actors to try out some end-stopped and open-ended lines?  This episode, obviously!


      So often, we rely on the magic of actors to fix our verse drama, that it's time to let the actors give their honest opinion about what they need from a line of verse.

      Looking at King Arthur verse from 1587 to the 2008 Cupid and Psyche "Bad Quarto", we're moving gently and with laughter through the good, the bad, and the unactable in verse drama.


      Featuring verse from: The Misfortunes of Arthur (Sir Thomas Hughes), and Cupid and Psyche (Emily C. A. Snyder)

      Featuring the voices of:

      • Andrew Barrett
      • Nick Ritacco
      • Evan Sachs
      • Vanessa Wendt

        • As promised, the 2008 "Bad Quarto" and the 2014 NYC Revision of Cupid and Psyche are available for $15+ patrons.  Check it out!


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        1 hr 38 min
      • A Very Special Announcement...

        Hamlet to Hamilton is moving to a biweekly (every other week) schedule, so that we can give you the best quality work, and to give you time to catch up on previous episodes.

        Don't forget, you can get transcripts, texts, resources and more on our website or connect to us on social media #hamlettohamilton.

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        See you next week!

        2 min
      • S1 E6: Whose Line (Ending) Is It Anyway?

        It's time to talk LINE BREAKS! From John Barton to Kristin Linklater, from Romeo and Juliet to The Winter's Tale, we're looking at how line endings work, how to act them...and that perennial question:  To enjamb or not to enjamb?

        • Featuring verse from: Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare), The Mother of God Visits Hell (Daniel Guyton), In Flight (Jenny Lyn Bader), The Lifted Instants Before the Fall: A Tale of Troy (Becca Musser), Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda) and "The Hollow Men" (T. S. Eliot), with reference to Travesties (Tom Stoppard) and The Second Shepherd's Play (The Wakefield Master)
        • Featuring text from: Freeing Shakespeare's Voice (Kristen Linklater), John Hadden on line-beginnings (thanks to The Shakespeare Forum), Modern Hamlets & Their Soliloquies (Mary Z. Maher), Playing Shakespeare (John Barton)

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          1 hr 44 min
        • S1 E5: So You Think You Know Scansion?

          It's time to explore our Tool Boudoir: that is, all the tools used on a line of verse.  First up?  Scansion, meter, and foot...BUT(!) not as you think you know them.  Introducing repeated, sprung, juxtaposed, and free meter - and how each of them work to help tell your story in verse.

          • Featuring verse from: Richard II (William Shakespeare), The Second Shepherd's Play (The Wakefield Master), The Mother of God Visits Hell (Daniel Guyton), The Other, Other Woman (Emily C. A. Snyder), The Table Round (Emily C. A. Snyder), and Murder in the Cathedral (T. S. Eliot)


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            1 hr 46 min
          • S1 E4: Heresy!

            HERESY!  Our podcast is on trial for claiming that there are no such things as feminine line endings, iambic pentameter is boring and we'll prove it, and worst of all...Shakespeare doesn't matter.

            • Featuring verse from: Measure for Measure (William Shakespeare), The Mother of God Visits Hell (Daniel Guyton)
            • Content Warning: Frank discussion of gender politics, the use of the word "queer" as an adjective (not a pejorative), mention of rape (in context of Measure for Measure)

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              1 hr 38 min
            • BARD TALK: October 2020

              What do you do after a show? Go to the pub! In this bonus episode, H2H creators Colin and Emily talk about how the show came to be, networking as an introvert, that one time Emily directed 425 kids in The Wizard of Oz, the virtue of cross country trips, and much more.


              PLEASE NOTE: Bar(d) Talk episodes do include swears, but are rather light on drinks.  Bring your own beverage.

              ALSO: Yes, the swears were in trochaic tetrameter, not in iambs.  We apologize to all scansionites, as it will invariably happen again.

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              1 hr 1 min

            About Hamlet to Hamilton: Exploring Verse Drama

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            Why write like Shakespeare...when you could write like you? Exploring old verse and new, H2H seeks to provide free education to all those looking to write, perform, or teach verse drama, as we…

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