The Lunatic, The Lover, and The Poet: Yet Another Bard Pod

A fire(works)side chat.

“I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion / The way he primps and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion.”

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Episode Notes

Groups of Ten or More People

https://youtu.be/MnVyVY8k6Rs

“‘Hamilton’ star Daveed Diggs on how Frederick Douglass' Fourth of July speech resonates today”

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hamilton-daveed-diggs-frederick-douglass-fourth-of-july-speech/

“‘Yay, Hamlet!’ Shakespeare’s Influence on Lin-Manuel Miranda”

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/lin-manuel-miranda-bard-era/5437/

“Lin-Manuel Miranda and William Shakespeare”

https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/lin-manuel-miranda-and-william-shakespeare/

“How Lin-Manuel Miranda Shapes History”

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton/408019/

“Fact-checking ‘Hamilton’ the musical”

https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/jul/01/fact-checking-hamilton-musical/

“Hamilton: Daveed Diggs is the fastest rapper on Broadway”

https://ew.com/article/2016/05/10/hamilton-daveed-diggs-fastest-rapper-broadway/

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"Walk without rhythm so you won't attract the worm."

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Episode Notes

The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler

www.amazon.com/Art-Shakespeares-…ler/dp/0674637127

"Sonnet 6" by William Shakespeare

http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/6

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Sonnet 5 (feat. MY WIFE *Borat Voice*)

Also, the EPIC CONCLUSION to Dylan's War with Wish.

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Episode Notes

"Ian Holm, Shakespearean Actor Who Played Bilbo Baggins, Dies at 88"

https://variety.com/2020/film/global/ian-holm-dead-bilbo-baggins-lord-of-the-rings-1234642549/

Why So Ever Bards Dispense Profanity: A Party Game Based on the Works of William Shakespeare

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CT6DOVY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

"Repeat Stuff" by Bo Burnham

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

The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler

www.amazon.com/Art-Shakespeares-…ler/dp/0674637127

"Sonnet 5" by William Shakespeare

http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/5

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Just because you have trouble pronouncing words doesn't mean you can't host a Shakespeare podcast.

Sonnet 4, engage.

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Episode Notes

"Exclusive: Kenneth Branagh Wants to Make an Animated Shakespeare Movie"

https://collider.com/kenneth-branagh-animated-shakespeare-movie-details-midsummer-nights-dream/

Standard Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Origen

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/origen/

The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler

www.amazon.com/Art-Shakespeares-…ler/dp/0674637127

"Sonnet 4" by William Shakespeare

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/4.html

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#BlackLivesMatter

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Episode Notes

[Books]

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Stomped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

[Movies and TV]

Get Out

Just Mercy

The Hate U Give

12 Years a Slave

Whose Streets?

Watchmen (2020)

If Beale Street Could Talk

Loving

Do the Right Thing

13th

When They See Us

I Am Not Your Negro

[Funds and Charities]

Black Lives Matter Oklahoma

https://www.paypal.me/BLMOKC

I Run With Maud

https://www.gofundme.com/f/i-run-with-maud

George Floyd Memorial Fund

https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

Justice for Breonna Taylor

https://www.gofundme.com/f/9v4q2-justice-for-breonna-taylor

Act Blue Bail, Mutual Aid, and Racial Justice Organization Fund

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd

NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund

https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6857/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=15780&_ga=2.187165864.1602954306.1591044385-2004584457.1591044385

Trans Justice Funding Project

https://www.transjusticefundingproject.org

American Civil Liberties Union

https://www.aclu.org/issues/racial-justice

[Petitions]

National Action Against Police Brutality and Murder

https://www.change.org/p/national-action-against-police-brutality-and-murder

Justice for George Floyd

https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd?utm_source=brand_us&utm_medium=media&use_react=false

We Can’t Breathe

https://www.wecantbreathenational.org

Stand With Breonna Taylor

https://www.standwithbre.com/#petition

Sonnet 3, in which the poet gets desperate enough to talk about moms.

Also, Han shot first, don't @ me.

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Episode Notes

Read for the Globe GoFundMe

https://www.gofundme.com/f/9p2gkh-read-for-the-globe

Read for the Globe Twitter

https://www.twitter.com/globeread

"Covid-19 rules prompt Utah theater group to perform Shakespeare in the parking garage" by Sean P. Means

https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2020/05/29/covid-rules-prompt-utah/

The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Shakespeares-Sonnets-Helen-Vendler/dp/0674637127

"Sonnet 3" by William Shakespeare

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50644/sonnet-3-look-in-thy-glass-and-tell-the-face-thou-viewest

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If you're looking for a Shakespeare podcast that discusses Doctor Who, Star Trek, The 1975, Radiohead, and ASMR, do I have an episode for you...

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Episode Notes

"War & America's Shakespeare" by Esther French

https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2016/05/24/war-americas-shakespeare/

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" by William Shakespeare (Henry V, Act III, Scene 1)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56972/speech-once-more-unto-the-breach-dear-friends-once-more

Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Writer by Gretchen E. Minton

https://www.countrybookshelf.com/book/9780826361561

Achieved Gretchen E. Minton Virtual Author Event with Country Bookshelf

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/virtual-author-event/register

"Coronavirus could bring down the curtain on Shakespeare's Globe theater" by William Booth

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/shakespeare-globe-theatre-coronavirus/2020/05/19/1f2fa5be-99d1-11ea-ad79-eef7cd734641_story.html

Oklahoma Shakespeare

https://www.okshakes.org

Urban Teahouse

https://urban-teahouse.com

"Sonnet 2" by William Shakespeare

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50423/sonnet-2-when-forty-winters-shall-besiege-thy-brow

Notes on a Conditional Form by The 1975

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_a_Conditional_Form

OK Computer by Radiohead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_Computer

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Sophomore slump or comeback of the year?

In this first "meat and potatoes" episode, Dylan takes a look at Sonnet 1, makes mouth sounds into the mic, sings, talks to his dog, and tries to explain "negging."

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Episode Notes

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

https://www.amazon.com/Will-World-How-Shakespeare-Became/dp/0393050572

National Theater Live

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDq1XzCY0NIOYVJvEMQjqw

Shakespeare's Globe

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwN-jwNNNQN-8sfKG-qg8uA

Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by James Shapiro

https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Divided-America-Plays-Future/dp/0525522298

The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro

https://www.amazon.com/Year-Lear-Shakespeare-1606/dp/1416541659

Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now by James Shapiro, Editor

https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-America-Anthology-Revolution-Library/dp/1598534629

Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts by Kathryn Harkup

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Shakespeare-Snakebites-Stabbings-Broken-ebook/dp/B07YZS3RHV

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

https://www.amazon.com/Hamnet-novel-Maggie-OFarrell/dp/0525657606

Shakespeare

"What Shakespeare Actually Wrote About the Plague" by Stephen Greenblatt

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-shakespeare-actually-wrote-about-the-plague

Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt

https://www.amazon.com/Tyrant-Shakespeare-Politics-Stephen-Greenblatt/dp/0393635759

Shakespeare's Life and Work at Harvard X

https://www.edx.org/course/shakespeares-life-and-work

"Sonnet 1" by William Shakespeare

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50643/sonnet-1-from-fairest-creatures-we-desire-increase

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What is a horseshoe? What does a horseshoe do? Are there any horse socks? Is anybody listening to me?

In this, the first official episode of The Lunatic, The Lover, and The Poet: Yet Another Bard Pod, we begin our dive into the literary background behind these 154 sonnets.

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Episode Notes

"She ruled in beauty" by Francesco Petrarcha

https://www.bartleby.com/342/26.html

"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art" by John Keats

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44468/bright-star-would-i-were-stedfast-as-thou-art

"Death, be not proud"

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44107/holy-sonnets-death-be-not-proud

"Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day

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Theme: "The Witches' Dance" performed by Jon Sayles

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