Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.

King Henry, Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1

Shakespeare did write a ton about love, but he also wrote a TON about war - people going to war, people coming back from war, people in the middle of a war... whew!

In today's episode, we examine the oh so masculine art of war.  We're sending you strength, Ukraine!!!

(NOTE: Also, Lisa Ann's sound SUCKS on this recording - we're so sorry and we'll fix it!!!)


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Episode Sources:

Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!  And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)

BUT ALSO, specifically:

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War: edited by David Loewenstein and Paul Stevens, Cambridge University Press 2021

Many, many other books! 

And the inter webs :) 

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Hello dear listeners!!!

WHAT ARE YOU DOING??  WHY ARE YOU JUST SITTING AROUND?????

Summer is upon us and Shakespeare companies are FINALLY going to be able to perform - get online and buy yourself some tickets, for heaven's sake!!!!

In this episode, we lay out a whole bunch of Shakespeare performance companies in the US, the UK, Canada, and the rest of the world. So you have NO EXCUSE!!!!

VENTURE FORTH OUT OF YOUR COVID HOLES AND SEE SOME SHAKESPEARE, YOU DICKS AND DICKESSES!!!!!!

This has been a public service announcement. Thank you.




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Episode Sources:

Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from three rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!  And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)

The Interwebs :)

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Okay, so maybe we're biased when it comes to Shakespeare... and maybe we're biased when it comes to New York... but!!!

We are definitely biased when it comes to our guest - we are so, so excited to have Rodney Hakim on this episode!!! Rodney is ALL things Shakespeare, particularly New York!!!

In this episode we talk about all thing Rodney, Shakespeare, and New York - wheeeeeeee!!!


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Episode Sources:

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Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

So..... wait..... are you telling me that Shakespeare wrote King Lear, Macbeth, AND Antony and Cleopatra in the SAME YEAR???? 

After writing As You Like It and Julius Caesar immediately followed by Hamlet?!???!?!?!

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?????

Shakespeare is a friggin' genius, we all know that - but in this episode, we look at WHEN he wrote WHAT - and some of the answers will blow your collective minds!!!




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Episode Sources:

Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!  And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)

Many, many books! 

And the inter webs :) 

Dick:    The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - Henry VI, Part 2 - Act 4 Scene 2

NOTE:  Is it just us, or it is hilarious that it's "Dick" that says the above quote????

That's right, you dicks!!! Today's episode is all about law and order!!!  What was the justice system like in Shakespeare's time?  WAS there a justice system??  And was our friend Will above it all or....... not??

And how do the words of the Bard affect the legal system in modern times???

Tune in to today's episode to find out as we break down the ins and outs of Elizabethan - and Shakespearean! - law!!!


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Episode Sources:

Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!  And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)

BUT ALSO, specifically:

Shakespeare and the Law - Edited by Bradin Cormack, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier - The University of Chicago Press 2013

Many, many other books! 

And the inter webs :) 

We all know that William Shakespeare may, in fact, be the greatest playwright that ever lived... but he wasn't the only one writing!!

On today's episode we discuss the other writers that were around during Shakespeare's time - the good, the bad, and the ugly!!! (Okay, that doesn't really track, but it sounded good!!)

So, who WAS Christopher Marlowe? And Thomas Kyd?? And Ben Jonson and Thomas Dekker and Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher???

Tune in to find out!!!

(Seriously you guys, there's was SO MUCH GREAT STUFF GOING ON THEN!!!!)


To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: [email protected] 

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Episode Sources:

Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!  And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)

Many, many, many books.

And the inter webs :) 

Happy New Year!!  Happy New Covid Variant!!

Sigh.

To start off 2022, we are deep diving into diseases during the Elizabethan era, as well as the ones Shakespeare talks about and mentions in  his plays.

You think Omicron is bad????  

Try having lice shitting on you, or fleas puking in you.  Yeah. That's right.

Here we go!!!


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The interwebs and a whole bunch of books.  And, as always, years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!  
And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)

Merry Merry!!!! 

In this episode we talk about the holidays mentioned in Shakespeare plays - which aren't many - they were a somber lot! - as well as holidays that would have been a thing for the Elizabethans.

AND!!!!!

We've decided that our "A Visit From Saint Falstaff" is so yummy, we are going to make it a yearly tradition.  Here's the link to it on our YouTube channel if you want visuals!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb1AcMg4L8E

Enjoy, listeners!!! We love you!!! Get vaccinated and stay safe out there - and Happiest of Holidays to all of you from both of us!!!


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Episode Sources:

Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!  And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)

So.... if you listened to the FIRST part of this drunken series... you'd know that another episode was coming.  We were gonna save it, but our lovely listener Stacey asked for it so... here ya go, kid!!!!

To reiterate, in case you're NEW... we invited some dear friends to play Trivial Pursuit Shakespeare Edition via Zoom.  The caveat was that we should all be imbibing some delicious drinkables, smokables, and/or edibles.  The result is this second episode.  (And may we say, steeping away and listening several months afterwards....?  We were REALLY bombed by the end of this.)

ENJOY!!!!! (Shakespeare knows we did!!!!!)

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Episode Sources:

Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from five rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!  And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)

Lights!!  Costumes!!  Set!!  Props!! Sound!! Camera!!  Action!!

Although when Shakespeare was around, his productions would have had none of the above -  except cobbled costumes and props from each actor's trunk. However, we believe that if Will came back today, he'd be like "Fuck, yeah!! Use whatever you got!!"

That being said, this episode looks at Shakespeare from a designer's point of view.  We welcome four fabulous guests - Rychard Curtiss, Nancy Nicholls, Kristopher Buggey, and Rob Duties - to discuss how a set, lighting, costumes, or sound design work in a Shakespeare production and how it differs from, say, a modern musical or a contemporary drama.

Or does it??? We discuss.


To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: [email protected] 

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Episode Sources:

Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!!  And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)