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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. [email protected] 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. [email protected] 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. [email protected] 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. [email protected] 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.