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The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Poke the Bear ShakespeareLA knows how fussy Owen gets when she gives him an online Shakespeare quiz that is TERRIBLE. And it kind of absolutely delights her. Because it pokes the bear (Owen).In this episode, LA gives Owen a 44 question Shakespeare quiz from the website Quizlet.And it is FUCKING HORRIBLE. Not only are the so-called "answers" to some of the questions completely ridiculous and WRONG, but things are misspelled. Like normal things. Like, words that should never be misspelled on a TEACHING WEBSITE.Sigh. The state of education in the old US of A...
2025-02-2146 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Cymbeline ShakespeareHave YOU ever seen a production of Cymbeline??? Owen hasn't, and Lisa Ann has only seen it once.HOWEVER!!!! We ARE seeing it at The Globe in London in March, and we decided to delve a little further into the play that really is quite seldom done.NOTE: LA is sounding rough from the shittiest flu EVER. Apologies. (Sneeze, cough, wheeze, rasp.)To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us mo...
2025-01-2435 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Who's Afraid of Shakespeare?During her daily perusal of The New York Times, LA came upon an article entitled "Who's Afraid of William Shakespeare?" written by Drew Lichtenberg, the artistic producer at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington.Texting it to Owen, immediately upon finishing said article, we decided that this was serious fodder for our pod.In case you want to read along, it was published on October 21, 2024.To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (b...
2024-11-0131 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Emma Thompson Shakespeare!!Sooooooo..... not only is Emma Thompson a brilliant actor and wonderful human being, but she is the one who told Leda (Owen's wife) and Lisa Ann, in a bathroom in London after having seen that stunning As You Like It that we've talked so much about..."Theatre is supposed to reduce you to rubble!"Heaven knows this fabulous woman has done that SOOOOO many times in her career. We love her!!!!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: t...
2024-08-2327 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Judi Dench Shakespeare!!In the last couple of months, we've delved into some of the most well-known Shakespearean actors. All of them male.It's time to shift the focus!!!!! In this episode, we rush headlong into the female side of this category - and who better to start with than herself, Dame Judi Dench??? (Sounds of Owen and Lisa Ann bowing and scraping.)Literally (like the title of her recent book!), Shakespeare was the man who paid her rent!!!Yaasssss, Queen!!!!!To send us an email - please do, we tr...
2024-08-0937 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Owen Goes to England (without LA!!!)Owen went to England!!! WITHOUT LA!!!! (Fuss, fuss, fuss. Ah well.)In this episode, we discuss all the cool and not so cool things that Owen saw in the UK this time around (including several Shakespeares of differing appeal, to be sure). And also... we drop some excellent pod news!!!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're a 501C3 Non-Profit - helllloooooo, tax deductible dona...
2024-07-2637 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Jacobi Shakespeare!!Okay, so.... third time's a charm!! Isn't that what they say??And for our third act, we have chosen none other than a podcast (Owen) favorite... Derek Jacobi!!!(LA loves him too, just not quite as much as Owen.)To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're a 501C3 Non-Profit - helllloooooo, tax deductible donation!!!) - per episode if you like! On Patreon, go here:
2024-07-1239 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Mother Fucking ShakespeareThink about it... how many characters are mothers in the canon? Now think about THIS... how many characters in Shakespeare don't seem to HAVE mothers??Weird, right???This one's for you, Joanelle. To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're a 501C3 Non-Profit - helllloooooo, tax deductible donation!!!) - per episode if you like! -On Patreon, go here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35...
2023-11-0340 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Criminal ShakespeareOkay. We all know that the Shakespeare canon is simply rife with all kinds of bad doings - but which ones are the most heinous??In this episode we talk about those characters who exhibit just downright criminal behavior.Oh Officer Krupke................To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're a 501C3 Non-Profit - helllloooooo, tax deductible donation!!!) - per episode if you like! -O...
2023-10-2033 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"At Your Service Shakespeare"Workin' 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin'...."To be fair, servants in Shakespeare's day worked a LOT longer than 9 to 5, but the "what a way to make a living'" part is still very applicable. Who are the servants in the Shakespeare canon? What are the different levels of servitude? And what purpose do they serve?? In this episode, we discuss all the characters that sweat and serve and attend and wait (on people). Wench!!! Bring me my drink, my pipe, and my slippers!!!!(Oh wait, that's right... we have no s...
2023-10-0651 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Psychological Shakespeare - A Follow-up to Mentally Ill Shakespeare!!FRIENDS OF THE POD!!!! Remember two episodes ago when the topic was Mentally Ill Shakespeare?? We always invite our listeners to converse with us about our episodes and this time, our Canadian listener Randy J. Paterson PhD, did!!! He is an actual psychologist and he wrote us a wonderful email all about the amateur diagnoses that we came up with, and he was SO smart and SO amusing that we invited him on the pod to do a follow-up episode.FYI - wacka wacka and bonkers are NOT actual clinical diagnosis terms - who knew??
2023-09-2259 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Pet ShakespeareToday's episode is a mewmorial - yes, shut the fuck up, mewmorial - for Lisa Ann's beloved feral to lapcat tortoiseshell Lady Plymdale, aka Momma. May she be resting in purrs over the rainbow bridge with Paquette, Genny-Mo, Sherilyn, Sahara, Thurl, Steve Wonder, and Eliot.In today's episode, we talk about (mostly) cats and dogs in Shakespeare. We spill over, but you know... it's been a week.IN MEWMORIAM - Lady Plymdale aka Momma - July 21, 2013 - September 5, 2023 😻To send us an email - please do, we truly want to he...
2023-09-0847 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Mentally Ill Shakespeare" I may be cwazy... but I'm not goin' to Alcatwaz..." (Yeah, yeah, we know it's a Shakespeare podcast, but Bugs Bunny is as Shakespearean a character as they come!!)Today's episode takes us deep into the loony bins of the canon. Which Shakespeare characters have gone off the deep end? And what would their diagnosis be? We dive into the psyche (ha!) and leap headlong into Bedlam!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving...
2023-08-2552 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Sweaty Shakespeare"In the summertime, when the weather is highYou can stretch right up and touch the skyWhen the weather's fineYou got Shakespeare, you got Shakespeare on your mind!"Well, we ALWAYS have Shakespeare on our minds!!But... it's still summer... hot, sweaty, stinky, sexy summer. What was it like for Elizabethans in the summer? In this episode, we discuss that, as well as references to the moistest of seasons."For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring." Romeo & Juliet, Act III Scene 1To s...
2023-08-1138 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Vacation Shakespeare"Vacation, all I ever wanted.... Vacation, had to get away..."Okay, so the Go-Gos aren't exactly Shakespearian, but it is a catchy tune!!It's summer, it's hot, it's time for some relaxation and respite. That being said, since neither of us can get away - too much going on!!! - www.sagaftrastrike.org!!! - in today's episode, we discuss where we would like to go on vacation... out of the locations Shakespeare used in his canon... and where we would absolutely NOT want to go!!! In both time periods, we might add - cuz sometimes, th...
2023-07-2840 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"AI Shakespeare - The Return of CHAT GPT - Pro Version!So, dear listeners... several episodes ago, we dove headlong into the world of AI.We asked CHATGPT to write sequels of three Shakespeare plays for us. (We also asked for a synopsis of the original plays).They BLEW.Then we found out that there was (apparently) a SMARTER version of CHAT GPT. That, of course, you have to pay for.We couldn't help ourselves. Here's those three once more from the "smarter" AI - and two new ones.To send us an email - please do, we truly wa...
2023-07-141h 05The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Knightly ShakespeareWhat images do the word "knight" conjure up in your heads, dear listeners?? A devilishly handsome man on a white horse? A metal bound warrior on a valiant steed? A pub-carousing, wench-laying, pint-waving, gorbellied sot?They ALL exist in Shakespeare's canon, way more than you might think!!In this episode, we talk about (hopefully!) all of them!!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're a 501C3 N...
2023-06-3059 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Dumbass Shakespeare - Season 4 Opener!!Welcome to Season 4 of The Bardcast!!!! We are incredibly grateful to ALL our listeners worldwide for getting us to this point - we love you all, you dicks and dickesses!!!!Our season opener follows some of the stuff we've been talking about... which characters in the Shakespeare canon are just fucking idiots in one way or another? Who is just dumb as a post genetically but also, who makes incredibly stupid decisions that have a major impact on the play?In this episode, we discuss the above... and you may hear about some smaller characters y...
2023-06-1645 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Woke ShakespeareMerriam Webster's definition of "woke" is as follows:Woke (chiefly US slang) -1a: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice) - often used in contexts that suggest someone's expressed beliefs about such matters are not backed with genuine concern or action.In this episode, we discuss a particular American production of a Shakespeare play that we feel falls under the above heading. And not necessarily in a good way.We strongly encourage anyone who listens and has...
2023-06-0237 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"AI Shakespeare (with special guest CHATGPT)So, dear listeners... everyone is up in arms these days about Artificial Intelligence, and all the things that it's being used for - photography, art, advertising, voiceovers, etc. - with good reason to be nervous!So we decided we were going to ask CHATGPT to write sequels of three Shakespeare plays for us. (We also asked for a synopsis of the original plays).Listen for yourselves, but our final takeaway is this:William Shakespeare ain't got nothing to worry about.To send us an email - please do, we truly...
2023-05-1953 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Leadership ShakespeareWhat makes a good leader? What makes a bad leader? What Shakespeare characters fall into which category?In this episode, we take a deep dive into all those that rule... or don't!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're a 501C3 Non-Profit - helllloooooo, tax deductible donation!!!) - per episode if you like! -On Patreon, go here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_land...
2023-05-0551 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Friendship Shakespeare“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel”— Polonius, Hamlet Act I Scene 3 "We'll always be bosom buddies...." - Mame and Vera, Mame Act IIIn today's episode, we discuss those platonic (mostly!) relationships in Shakespeare which feed us, touch us, annoy us, and horrify us.Did we miss one you like?? Let us know which one and why!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
2023-04-2147 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Framing ShakespeareSo... what's the deal with those prologues and epilogues in Shakespeare plays? And who is the "Chorus," exactly??In this episode we discuss all the things that are used in the Shakespeare canon as a framing device. You know, two households both alike and all that...To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -On Pat...
2023-04-0746 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Expert Shakespeare: Tony Hulme from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust!As if our trip to the UK wasn't incredible enough, we met this AMAZING man in Stratford Upon Avon who is a docent for The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, who oversees the Shakespeare Birthplace, Holy Trinity Church, Shakespeare's Schoolhouse, The New Place... EVERYTHING that has ANYTHING to do with Shakespeare in Stratford Upon Avon!!!!!!Join us as we talk to this incredible fount of Shakespeare information, Tony Hulme. We were blown away!!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
2023-03-241h 00The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"RSC/Lyric Hammersmith Shakespeare! The Tempest and Othello, Respectively!We complete our UK Shakespeare binge with The Tempest at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford Upon Avon and Othello by the sizzling Frantic Assembly at the Lyric Hammersmith back in LondonWhat a whirlwind tour!!! To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -On Patreon, go here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=tru...
2023-03-1749 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Southwark Playhouse Shakespeare - Hamlet Edition!To be or not to be..... 90 minutes?!?What do you get when you cut all of the adults out of Hamlet??Listen to the episode and find out as we Shakespeare our way through London!!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -On Patreon, go here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_la...
2023-03-1032 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Shakespeare!! Part 2 - Titus AndronicusContinuing on our UK quest for all things Shakespeare, we returned to the indoor theatre at The Globe for Titus Andronicus.Now we understand why some mothers eat their young. Hide all your candles!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -On Patreon, go here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_lan...
2023-03-0246 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Shakespeare!! Part 1: Henry VHello you dicks and dickesses!!!We continue to take you with us on our journey through Merrie Olde England with our review of Henry V at the Sam Wanamaker, the indoor theatre at the Globe in London. We wish we were back in London (sob!), but listen with us and maybe we can all meet there in our dreams!!! Cuppa, anyone?? Or a pint?? We're so in!!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To su...
2023-02-2431 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Touchstone Tom Mison - As We Like It Shakespeare!!As if our UK trip wasn't AMAZING enough... in this episode not only do we review the stunning production of As You Like It that we saw at SohoPlace, but we were thrilled to be able to do an interview with TOM MISON, who played a simply outstanding Touchstone in that production!!We bet that you know him from other things besides Shakespeare... check out his IMDB page...https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2070427/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1Sometimes, listeners, life is pretty fucking great!!!To send us an email - please...
2023-02-171h 15The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Birthplace Shakespeare!WE ARE IN THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!For us anyway!!! Did you know that Shakespeare grew up with gallons and gallons of urine and manure in his back yard??Or that his dad ran a brisk business out of the front window while little Will was sleeping upstairs (before he went bankrupt, that is)??Or that he and his knocked up wife had to live with his parents after they got hitched - shotgun wedding style - because young Billy Boy had flies and nothing else coming out of his w...
2023-02-0325 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"London and Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare - A Preview!OHMYGODWERESOEXCITED!!!!!The next time you hear us, we will be recording from THE UK!!! IN THE SAME ROOM!!!Yes, listeners, The Bardcast is heading to London and Stratford-upon-Avon for ALL THINGS SHAKESPEARE (what, what?!??)!!! In this episode, we give you a preview of our itinerary - what Shakespeare plays we’re seeing, where we’re going, what we’re doing etc. - all of which you’ll hear about in episodes to come!!!Join us for a pint, you bloody dicks and dickesses!!To send us an email...
2023-01-2041 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Another Card Game Shakespeare - Great Shakespearean Deaths!!Happy 2023, dicks and dickesses!!We decided to start off the new year by playing a game that we were both given for Christmas, Great Shakespearean Deaths, a card game by Chris Riddell & Spymonkey.Let the games begin!!! Also, make sure you join us on January 20, when we will be doing a "The Bardcast Goes to London and Stratford" preview episode!!!!Announcements!!! We are now a federal non-profit 501C3, so any money you donate towards the podcast is a 100% tax deduction - doesn't that absolutely rock for both you and us?!?!?!? Get on it, dea...
2023-01-0649 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Crucified Shakespeare 🎄Okay people, relax... Shakespeare wasn't crucified, of course!! He even survived many rounds of the Bubonic Plague!!But... it is close to Christmas, and this is our last episode of 2022, so we decided to see how many times Christ, Jesus, or Jesus Christ is mentioned in the canon. We include some other variations, but you'd be amazed at how relatively few this is - and there's a reason for that!!! (You'll have to listen to find out!!)And, as always, we close this episode with our Christmas tradition, A Visit From Saint Falstaff!! Thanks again to...
2022-12-2334 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"It's Good to Be King Shakespeare! 🤴🏻🤴🏻🤴🏻Remember our Yaaaaassss Queen episode???We figured that fair is fair, so here's our counterpart episode!!!There are SOOOOOOO MANY KINGS in Shakespeare's plays!!! And we talk about ALL of them, but if we miss one... let us know!!!!Announcements!!! We are now a federal non-profit 501C3, so any money you donate towards the podcast is a 100% tax deduction - doesn't that absolutely rock for both you and us?!?!?!? Get on it, dear listeners!!! Much obliged :) Also... we are going to the UK in late January 2023!!! Seeing a bunch of Shakespeare play...
2022-12-091h 08The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Marry, Fuck, Kill! ShakespeareSo... you know that game people play where you give someone three names of either famous people, or people you both know, or historical characters, etc., and you have to pick the one who you'd marry, the one who you'd fuck, and the one who you'd kill out of the three?Yeah, that game. Except we play it with Shakespeare characters!!!It's a blast. Check it out!!! Announcement!!! We are now a federal non-profit 501C3, so any money you donate towards the podcast is a 100% tax deduction - doesn't that absolutely roc...
2022-11-2547 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Bard Cards Shakespeare!So... one of our beloved listeners, David Overton PhD, contacted us and told us about this FABULOUS game that he sells all over, including this link for Etsy:https://www.etsy.com/listing/734729316/bard-cards-the-authentic-shakespeareanWe decided to play a round against each other (yes, substances are involved!) to see how the game is - and it ROCKS!!! AND it's hard!! Worthy of the Bardcast!! Of course, we adjusted the scoring a little to make it EVEN HARDER!!! Best of all, our dear friend and friend of the pod Caleb Feigles of Making A M...
2022-11-111h 12The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Impersonation ShakespeareHi there poison ghouls!! (Get it??) It's spooky season!! All Hallow's Eve is around the corner!!And since we're heading into Halloween weekend, we thought we'd talk about all the characters in Shakespeare that dress up and/or impersonate someone or something else. There's a lot!! If we miss one, let us know!!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if...
2022-10-2831 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Medical ShakespearePustules and chancres and ague and belching,Carbuncles, dropsy, kyphosis, and felching....Okay, that last one wasn't Shakespeare per se, but it fucking rhymes!!!On today's episode, we go through all the lovely medical terms in Elizabethan times and Shakespeare plays.Got your tissues and puke bags handy?? You're gonna need 'em. Enjoy!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, da...
2022-10-141h 06The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Couples Therapy ShakespeareWhat do Antony and Cleopatra, Lord and Lady Macbeth, and Tamora and Aaron have in common with Brad and Angelina, and Chris and Rihanna???They are all INCREDIBLY TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS!!! Therapists could have made a FORTUNE in Elizabethan times!!!Join us as we work our way through most of the couples in Shakespeare, discussing the dirt on each one of them. Whew!!! It's a LOT!!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us...
2022-09-301h 14The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Return of Sonnet ShakespeareDarling Dearest Dicks and Dickesses!!!We promised you more sonnets and boy, oh boy, do we deliver!!! And to top it all off, this is our 60th episode - dropping on Owen's 60th natal anniversary!!!!!!Coincidence??? We think not.In this episode, we have our dear friends and incredible artists Elisabeth Rodgers, Alvin Keith, Natalia Cuevas, and McCrae Hardy sharing their mind-blowing interpretations of yet more Shakespeare's sonnets - and this time, one is even set to music!!!! Somewhere, our boy Will S. is a happy, happy man!!!To...
2022-09-161h 18The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Cumming, Farting, Pissing, Shitting, Barfing ShakespeareSo, this week's episode is about... Well, seriously.. need we say more than the title???We thinkst not.To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - per episode if you like!)...On Patreon, go here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=trueOr on Paypal:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8KTK7CATJSRYJTo visit our website, go...
2022-09-0241 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Dueling ShakespeareEn Garde!! Now... we know there are TONS of battles in Shakespeare plays... but what about the quintessential duel?? How many times does a duel happen in the canon? And for that matter, how many examples of single combat are there in the plays??On today's episode we attempt to answer this questions!!To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - per episode if you like...
2022-08-1935 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Yaaasss Queen ShakespeareWe all know that women didn't have a ton of power in the home in the Elizabethan Age - except for Elizabeth, of course! Shakespeare did good things for female characters, even though it was men who played them!In this episode, we discuss not only the actual Queens in Shakespeare's plays, but those women who are head of a household.Dayum, bitch - it was hard being a girl!!!To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
2022-08-0557 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Foolish ShakespeareBe A Clown, Be A Clown,All The World Loves A Clown.Act A Fool, Play The Calf,And You'll Always Have The Last Laugh!!And it's true!!! Gene Kelly and Judy Garland knew what they were talking about... we privately wonder if they were bardolaters behind closed doors!!The clowns and fools in Shakespeare not only make us laugh uproariously, but Shakespeare puts words of razor sharp wit in their mouths to illuminate the human condition.But what exactly designates one character a fool, and one a clown??
2022-07-2236 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Bards Dispense Profanity: Even Drunker Edition!!!Darling listeners!!! Today's episode is one we've been looking forward to - the SECOND game of Bards Dispense Profanity, Even Drunker Edition!!!!It's been a crazy month, as Owen is currently directing The House of Bernarda Alba and Lisa Ann is Dialect Coach for Kinky Boots - so we have been BUSY BUSY BUSY!!! (Links are below - go see some theatre!!!)We'll be back to you live and in person (kinda, since we record these) next episode but in the meantime - can you BELIEVE how wasted we were and STILL managed to...
2022-07-081h 06The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Son of Sonnet Shakespeare - The Sequel!Listeners!!!We have had such a wonderful response to our first Sonnet Shakespeare episode that we rushed to put together another one!!! In this episode, we have our dear friends and incredible artists Colin Wulff, Simon Nigam, Michael Daly, and Harper York sharing their choice of sonnets - and the feeling, insight, and talent they bring to them is MIND BLOWING!!!!!!We are incredibly lucky ducks here at The Bardcast!!!!To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.c...
2022-06-241h 12The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Punk Rock ShakespeareHAPPY THIRD YEAR OF THE POD, LISTENERS!!!!! We couldn't have done it without you and we are eternally grateful.That being said, we thought we'd take a left at Albuquerque and riff a little on this idea we've been throwing around for a while: what does it mean to be "punk rock" (other than the music of course!)?? What is the energy and the attitude AND - what characters in Shakespeare plays could be considered "punk?"In today's episode, we discuss this intriguing (to us, and hopefully, to you!) idea of anarchy and an...
2022-06-1039 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Superfan Shakespeare! Season 2 FinaleThe last episode of our second full season?!?!?!?!?!?!?SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?!?!?! WE MADE IT, THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!In this episode we talk to three of our beloved listeners and fans of the pod - they're THE FUCKING GREATEST!!!!!!!Truly. Check it out. And thanks, guys, we're incredibly grateful for ALL of you!!!!!!!!To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dam...
2022-05-271h 30The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Sonnet ShakespeareWe would bet that almost any human probably knows arguably the most famous line from all of Shakespeare's sonnets - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" But there are SO MANY MORE!!!!!! 153 more, to be precise. So we decided to ask about 20 or so of our most beloved artist friends to pick a sonnet to speak and speak about on the podcast. We're going to take our time with this one, making it an ongoing series.In today's episode, we (Owen, doing Sonnet 30, and Lisa Ann, doing Sonnet 23) are joined by our dear fri...
2022-05-131h 06The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Bards Dispense Profanity Shakespeare - Game On(e)!Well... we had SO MUCH FUN playing Trivial Pursuit Shakespeare that we decided to invite some of our favorite nerdy Shakespeare peeps and play another Shakespeare themed game - Bards Dispense Profanity!!! It's basically the Shakespeare version of Cards Against Humanity - get it?? Get the play on words???Much profanity was dispensed. (The attitude adjustment substances were helpful, to be sure, but we went for it!!)So grab a libation or an herb of your choice and enjoy, friends and listeners!!! (Will knows WE did!!)To send us an email...
2022-04-2951 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Song and Dance Shakespeare (Tra la, tra la, tra la!)Where the bee sucks, there suck we!In today's episode, we discuss all the songs and dances mentioned in Shakespeare plays. There's a LOT!!! Those Elizabethans like to PAR-TAY!!!!!Also, Shakespeare used vocal music to evoke mood, or to establish the character or the mental state of the singer.So sigh no more, ladies (and gents, and others), sigh no more - and fill up your dance cards with a galliard, or maybe a coranto... and if all else fails, JIG, baby, JIG!!!!To send us an email - p...
2022-04-1539 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Military ShakespeareOnce more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;Or close the wall up with our English dead.King Henry, Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1Shakespeare 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 i...
2022-04-0154 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Go See Some Shakespeare!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 s...
2022-03-181h 06The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"New York ShakespeareOkay, 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!!!Like us? Leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!To send us an email - please do...
2022-03-0454 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Timeline ShakespeareSo..... 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!!!To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@g...
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The Dark Mark ShowLisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson from The Bardcast It's Shakespeare You Dick Podcasts collide this week as Mark and Nicole welcome actor/directors/scholars Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson of the award winning podcast "The Bardcast - It's Shakespeare You Dick!" to the lighter side of the dark side.
Lisa Ann and Owen discussed the amount of dick jokes and sex in Shakespeare's work, how technology is proving he wrote his plays and also that he likely was a stoner and a bit of a thug. They break down the good and the bad in the new Tragedy of Macbeth and other Shakespearean films. Lisa Ann talks about starring in t...
2022-02-061h 08The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Legal ShakespeareDick: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - Henry VI, Part 2 - Act 4 Scene 2NOTE: 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...
2022-02-041h 07The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Shakespeare's ContemporariesWe 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!!!!)
2022-01-211h 07The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Diseased ShakespeareHappy 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!!!To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To visit our website, go here:https...
2022-01-0750 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Holiday Shakespeare - and - A Visit From Saint Falstaff!!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=kb1AcMg4L8EEnjoy, listeners!!! We love you!!! Get va...
2021-12-2419 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Drunken Trivial Pursuit Shakespeare - Part DEUXSo.... 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...
2021-12-101h 12The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Designing ShakespeareLights!! 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...
2021-11-261h 01The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Seasonal ShakespeareIt's Autumn... leaves are falling, the wind is getting colder, and the daylight is receding for the near future...WHAT THE FUCK, Eastern Standard Time?!????Since we're both EST haters, in this episode we discuss the ways Shakespeare uses the seasons in his work - as metaphors, indications of time, indications of aging, etc.We have to do SOMETHING to keep us sane until the warm weather comes back!!!To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
2021-11-1250 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Ghostly Shakespeare 👻Double double toil and trouble...It's Spooky Season!!! Spirits and vampires and werewolves - oh my!!!In this episode we discuss all the ghosts that are present in Shakespeare plays. Some are benevolent, some are malevolent, and some are just plain boring - but we love them anyway!!(Angels and ministers of grace defend us.)Happy All Hallow's Eve!!!To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To visit our website, go h...
2021-10-2945 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Shakespearean Actors - Part One!!To act Shakespeare or not to act Shakespeare... that is the question!!In this episode, we begin our exploration of The Ones Who Act Shakespeare with the household names of actors that you may have actually seen in a Shakespeare play in your time on this rock!! And we peruse a list of modern day well known celebrities who have dipped a toe or ten into the waters of The Bard.This notice serves as a disclaimer that the views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this episode - and trust us, there are some OPINIONS...
2021-10-1542 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Drunken Trivial Pursuit Shakespeare - Part 1And now, for something completely different......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 episode.ENJOY!!!!! (Shakespeare knows we did!!!!!)To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - per episode if you like!)...On Patreon, go here: https://www.patreon.com...
2021-10-0145 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Al Fresco ShakespeareIn the beginning....Will created plays, and they were played outdoors. In today's world, we have indoor theaters, and microphones, and all kinds of things to make the Bard more accessible to modern day audiences.But does it, really? On this episode we talk to two guests both well acquainted with Shakespeare outdoors, one primarily an actor, and one an actor/producer.What do they think about this subject?!?? Have a listen to find out!!To send us an email - please do, we want to hear fro...
2021-09-171h 02The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Beastly Shakespeare 😼Guess how many times the actual word "animal" shows up in all of Shakespeare's plays??HUH???? C'MON!!!!! GUESS!!!!!!!There are all KINDS of animals in the canon - mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles - they're all in there!!!In this episode, we begin to scratch (ha!!) the surface... of the winter lion, the Hyrcanian tiger, and baited bear; the little shrew and the necessary cat; bottled spiders and horned toads; brave harts and gentle hinds; the forward horse and preposterous ass; the temple-haunting martlet, morning lark, nightly owl, and winging crow; the nibbli...
2021-09-0344 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Insult ShakespeareHey, you crusty toad-spotted turds! Thou puny tallow-faced giggles!! Thou droning ill-nurtured pignuts!!!Thou sanctimonious rude-growing canker-blossom!!!!WHAT THE HELL DO THOSE MEAN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!In today's episode, we deep dive into the insults in Shakespeare plays and those of Elizabethan times in general. Think about it - you can learn how to insult your friends and neighbors AND THEY WON'T UNDERSTAND A WORD!!!!!You hope............To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gma...
2021-08-2056 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"English Shakespeare vs. American ShakespeareListen.... we know that William Shakespeare was English. We know that the English have performed Shakespeare plays WAAAAAAY more than Americans, simply because they've been around longer!!! And there are many, many British actors and directors and productions of Shakespeare that we just LOOOOOOVE.That being said... we have heard that "Americans can't do Shakespeare like the English."We take umbrage to that statement, but we decided to ask two wonderful guests their opinions!!Harper Annette York and Amelia White, both incredible theatre artists who were born in England and moved to the Un...
2021-08-061h 16The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Garbage ShakespeareLook.... we LOVE Shakespeare. Like we love theatre in general. That being said........some of it just - simply - sucks. We are NOT bardolators. Nothing is sacred, dammit!!!!Crappy characters, plays that don't work, story lines that are quintessentially uninteresting, oodles of misogyny....So, in this episode we discuss the stuff in Shakespeare's plays that we just don't care a bloody whit for - end of story.Do you agree?? Do you disagree???? Write us at thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com and tell us!!!C'mon!!! Bring it!!! We're waiting...
2021-07-2353 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Wasted ShakespeareTo doob or not to doob?? That IS the question!!There are many substances that are consumed in Shakespeare plays and, indeed, the Bard himself may have snorted a fingerful or smoked the proverbial bowl before he sat down to write the canon. Not to mention the usual pint or five!!In this episode, we discuss the ways and means that the Elizabethans adjusted their attitudes!!To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by...
2021-07-0930 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Pride Shakespeare! 🌈It's June - Happy Pride everyone!!! Love is Love is Love!!!That being said (even though it should have ALWAYS been love is love), in the Elizabethan times things were very different as far as the way people lived, loved, and talked about same sex relationships. In fact, they didn't really outwardly deal with anything other than the traditional man and wife (purported to be the only acceptable relationship in the fictional bible).Except that you could be executed for buggery. Yeah.Soooooooo..... was William Shakespeare gay or bisexual?? It's conjecture, but we di...
2021-06-2557 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Religious ShakespeareHOLY SHAKESPEARE!!!!!!!Or not so holy!!! We don't actually know for sure whether Will was a practitioner of ANY organized religion, especially because he lived when one's religious beliefs were literally a matter of life or death.And who says we can decipher his personal beliefs by what he writes in his plays??? Did Theodore Geisel - better known as Dr. Seuss - actually think that we eat a roast beast during Christmas, aka Davoo Dores???? Not so much.Join us as we take a deeper dive into the religion os the period in...
2021-06-1158 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Retrospective Pandemic ShakespeareWhat????It's been an ENTIRE YEAR?!?!!?!?!?And we STILL have SO much to talk about!!!! In this episode, we are joined by our wonderful guests Michael Daly, Alvin Keith, Caleb Feigles, Randy Kovitz, and Patrick Lawlor - past experts on the pod and amazing artists who have also been a part of Shakespeare Sunday and The Bardcast Players, which has kept us SANE throughout the last year.We talk about how the pandemic affected the arts, what lasting effects it's going to have, and how the last year has changed the w...
2021-05-281h 03The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Concept ShakespeareComing to you live from.......... Maine? Owen is off directing a play, so even though this episode is chockfull of more opinion than fact, we do discuss a bunch of famous productions of Shakespeare plays that are "conceptual."Do they work? What makes a concept fly or not? Does it add to the text or distract from it??The answer is..... both!!! Depending on the production.Make sure you stay tuned for information our next FREE benefit live stream - all info will be posted on our website at: www.thebardcastyoudick.com...
2021-05-1434 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Dishy Shakespeare!You know how sometimes you just feel like dishing and bitching about a particular topic instead of getting all academic??Welcome to Dishy Shakespeare!In this episode, we let it all (proverbially speaking) hang out, insofar as what WE think about all things Shakespeare - plays, productions, and people. WTF, sometimes you just gotta bitch.It's gettin' real, friends.
2021-04-3050 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Relationship ShakespeareWe WERE going to call this episode Romantic Shakespeare - but then we realized in a lot of the plays, non-platonic relationships are often UNromantic so.... yeah.So therefore, in this episode, we discuss the believability and viability of the "love" relationships in Shakespeare's plays. Can one really sustain a marriage when you fall in love in less than a page?? Can you have a happy marriage when you have managed to get married by having some whore pretend to be you so your soon to be husband HAS to marry you???It's a conundrum. We...
2021-04-1655 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Recreational Shakespeare!The Elizabethan era was a time of great fun and frivolity.... usually involving beating the crap out of someone or something.Seriously. You can't make this shit up.Although........... since this episode was recorded on April 1 - Happy April Fool's Day!! - we did!! Listen to the episode and hit us up via our website or social media and tell us which two games are a product of our own twisted imaginations. One right answer gets you a shout-out on the next episode; two right answers gets you a PRIZE!!! That's rig...
2021-04-021h 06The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Invented by ShakespeareWhat the dickens does "Invented by Shakespeare" mean???As luck would have it - in this week's episode, we discuss all the phrases and words we modern folk use every day - that came directly from William Shakespeare!!It's a brave new world!! Can there be too much of a good thing?? It may be a foregone conclusion!!But we wear our heart on our sleeves and it would be cold comfort if our listeners weren't w...
2021-03-1943 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"WTF Shakespeare?!??What do farting, syphillis, misogyny, homo-erotica, and bodily mutilation have in common??They're ALL in the plays of Shakespeare!!!In this episode we discuss all the things that make us go: "What the actually fuck, William Shakespeare?!??"Make sure you stay tuned for information our next FREE benefit live stream of As You Like It in April 2021 - all info will be posted on our website at: www.thebardcastyoudick.com, or on our Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter pages!! As always, it won't cost you a cent but if yo...
2021-03-0540 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Zoom Shakespeare"It's the end of the world as we know it......"Not really, although the pandemic has put quite a damper on theatre. How to get around that??? One word....ZOOM!!!!!!In today's episode we discuss the inaugural livestream performance of The Bardcast Player's Macbeth. How do artists make what quintessentially depends on the congregation of human energies into a satisfying and electrifying theatre experience??ZOOM!!!!!!And a bunch of background, sound cues, and special effects. Whew!!!Make sure you join us for our FREE benefit live stream of M...
2021-02-1939 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Punny ShakespeareAn academic walked into a bar and sat down at the counter. "Barkeep," he said "Pour me a stiff one. I've had a hard day." "What's the matter, friend?" said the barkeep. "Well," said the academic, "this morning's class was all about the life of Shakespeare himself. This afternoon's class will be all about his poetry. Things are going from Bard to Verse!!!"(Ba dum dum.)Okay, maybe that's not as good a pun as most of Will's, although there are some that groan worthy, but we can't help it - we're paronomasiacs. (Yo...
2021-02-0538 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Adapted ShakespeareThe well known American author Susan Vreeland was correct - art begets art!!!On the heels of our Film Shakespeare series - here is our longest episode so far, comprising even MORE stuff that is based on, or inspired by, the works of our friend Will!!!His plays have given birth to SOOOOO MUCH ART!!!!!We can tell you this.... Shakespeare AIN'T GOING NOWHERE, folks, and this episode proves that indisputably. To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us...
2021-01-221h 55The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Violent Shakespeare"Have at thee, coward!!!"As we've discussed before, there are SOOOOO many instances of violence of one kind or another in the Shakespeare canon. So... how does that get translated onto the stage or in a film in a believable way?We talk to Randy Kovitz, master fight choreographer, who helps us understand how we can stab, strangle, smother, or otherwise subdue a character and make it look real - while being safe... cuz we're only ACTING, people!!!To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from y...
2021-01-081h 05The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Christmas ShakespeareMerrie Christmas, dear listeners!!! In this episode we discuss how those Elizabethans celebrated Christmas - for twelve days, those filthy animals!!!ALSO.....At the end of the episode is a special gift from us to you... Merry Merry!!!!So now is come our joyful'st feast, Let every man be jolly. Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Round your foreheads garlands twine, Drown sorrow in a cup of wine, And let us all be merry...
2020-12-2529 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Racial ShakespeareWas Shakespeare racist? Was he anti-Semitic? Or was he just writing as a product of his times?And what about modern day productions of Shakespeare - how do they deal with these issues? Is there such a thing as truly colorblind casting? We are proud to welcome our first guest (YAY!!!!), the wonderful and talented Alvin Keith, to discuss this very timely, important, and frankly, often inflammatory topic.To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To sup...
2020-12-111h 05The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Film Shakespeare Part 4 - Romeo and JulietWe're back at it! The bard's youngest lovers on the big screen!!For this episode, we stuffed ourselves full of Romeo and Juliet in preparation for stuffing ourselves full of turkey!! Although frankly, some of the Romeo and Juliet was far less palatable...But we digress.We give thanks for YOU this year, dear listener!!! So dive in with us to the world of love, passion, weapons, family feuding, and fatal mistakes!!And hopefully, no plague on any of your houses, especially this year - 2020 has given us some sh...
2020-11-2743 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Winning ShakespeareWinners and losers... losers and winners....What kind of behaviour does a winner or loser display? Are they gracious? Do they experience a moment of clarity in loss? Do they ascend with humility or do they try to burn the freaking house down??On the heels of the recent United States Presidential election of Joe Biden (and yes, he DID win, contrary to what SOME people would like to believe), we return once more to the plays of the Bard to understand the etiquette - or lack thereof - within the scope of political power.
2020-11-1340 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Occult ShakespeareDouble, double, toil, and trouble....Fire burn and podcast bubble....What?? Never mind. It's Halloween!!! Samhaim!!! All Hallows Eve!!! And our boy Will has magic and witches and ghosts and demons and premonitions and precognitions and dreams and all kinds of freaky shit literally sprinkled throughout his plays. In this episode, we discuss some of the history that influenced Shakespeare's writing as well as some conjecture about which witch is which in many of his plays.To support us (by giving us money) on Patreon, go here: https://www.patreon.com/us...
2020-10-3058 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Tyrannical ShakespeareIt's almost November, people!!! There are certain ELECTIONS in certain countries that are very much on our minds, as well as the minds of the rest of the planet. So... how we do deal with it? We talk about the political atmosphere that surrounded our boy Will!! Was there a separation of church and state for Shakespeare? Hell, no! Shakespeare had a devil of a time maneuvering around the politics of his time, but managed to stay under the radar of those who would chop off his head for treason."Tyranny attempts to poison...
2020-10-1635 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Film Shakespeare - Part 3 - Macbeth!"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes....." (and in some cases, it's the way the text of Macbeth is bastardized - feh!!)One of the greatest dramatic plays ever written about the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake, we deep dive into the many versions of the Scottish Play available on film.Can you smell the blood still??? You will, rabbit, you will.........Like us?!? Leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you...
2020-10-0251 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Gendered ShakespeareIt's a bird! It's a plane! It's a..................No, wait... is that a male or female Desdemona?!?!???In this episode, we go down the rabbit hole of gender in Shakespeare plays. Join us as we discuss some of the greatest cross-dressing "actoresses" of the Bard, as well as what the text of Shakespeare reveals about the differences between guys and gals (and we're not talking anatomy here folks - well, okay, but just a little).To support (and give us money) on Patreon, go here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_la...
2020-09-1840 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Film Shakespeare - Part 2 - Hamlet!To be, or no to be..... HAMLET!!!! SOOOOOO many famous actors have given their collective eye-teeth to have a go at this role, and not just on stage. In this continuation episode, we go through a bunch of the many film and/or video Hamlets we've been watching lately.And BTW... who knew how sexy Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek or Quint from Jaws as the unctuous Claudius could be?!?!? (pant pant) Angels and ministers of grace defend us!!!!Like us?!? Leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get y...
2020-09-0443 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Assholes, Douchebags, and Fuck-ups in ShakespeareWhat is the difference between an asshole, a douchebag, and a fuck-up? And that being said, how about a jagoff, a prick, and a dick? And what title transcends even those???In this episode, we discuss our favorites of the MANY somewhat detestable characters in Shakespeare, attempting to delineate between the above monikers.Strap in, people - it's a bumpy ride through the crapola!!!To give us money on Patreon, go here!! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=trueTo visit our website go here!!htt...
2020-08-2139 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Film Shakespeare - Part IDid you know that Will Shakespeare - that bitch! - has the kind of numbers on IMDB that every freakin' actor DREAMS of????It's true. This is the first episode in a series, 'cuz this category is just too damn big for one. For the foreseeable future, until we've satisfactorily exhausted the category, the first episode each month will be an episode that falls under the Film Shakespeare umbrella.Get your popcorn ready, you surly tardy-gaited clotpoles!!!(And please, no talking during the feature.)To support our show on...
2020-08-0740 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Was it Shakespeare?There are SOME people who think William Shakespeare didn't actually write the plays he is so famous for... fuck 'em!!! However, to be fair, in this episode we will explain who they are and what they think (eye roll). Can you tell what WE think by this explanation???William Shakespeare's Plays Matter!!!!Sources for Bardcast Episode 4: Was it Shakespeare? Heather Wolfe, Adam G. Hooks, Erin A. McCarthy, Alan H. Nelson, et al at Shakespearedocumented@folger.eduDavid Kathman and Terry Ross at The Shakespeare Authorship Page
2020-07-2441 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Death by ShakespeareWhat do Stephen King, Clive Barker, Bram Stoker, and Edgar Allen Poe all have in common?? They WISH they could throw the gore the way Shakespeare did!! Take a trip with us back to the days before chainsaws and automatic weapons, when men were men and bears were bears and murder was up close and personal. To support our show on Patreon, go here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=trueTo visit our website go here:https://www.thebardcastyoudick.comTo donate to an awesome charity, go here:
2020-07-1057 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Plague ShakespeareThis social distancing thing?? It's been around for hundreds of years!! In fact, they did it way better than us!! Learn how repeated epidemics of bubonic plague impacted Shakespeare's life and work AND learn how the Oriental Rat Flea accomplished its nasty, nasty business!!To support our show on Patreon, go here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=trueTo visit our website go here:https://www.thebardcastyoudick.comTo donate to an awesome charity, go here:https://actorsfund.org/help-our-entertainment-communiity-covid-19-emergency-reliefLike us? Leave us a...
2020-06-2632 minThe Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"Filthy ShakespeareWere you ever sitting in high school English class, struggling to stay awake while listening to the theatre kids schmacting Romeo and Juliet out loud, and you hear a phrase that perks you up for a second? You think, "Was that a dick joke??? Nah, can't be, it's Shakespeare."It WAS a dick joke!And there's SO much more.
2020-06-0938 min