No Holds Bard

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This week we'll pluck up, explore Juliet's options, and apologize profusely for our two-weeks absence from your podcast dials.

Inspired by a request from Emily Gams, the boys create a chain of motifs linking all 38 plays in the Canon one by one.