The Bardcast: "It's Shakespeare, You Dick!"

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Go See Some Shakespeare! Mar 18, 2022

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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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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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New York Shakespeare Mar 04, 2022

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

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Timeline Shakespeare Feb 18, 2022

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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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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!
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Legal Shakespeare Feb 04, 2022

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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!!!
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!)...
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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!
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Shakespeare's Contemporaries Jan 21, 2022

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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!!!!)
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Like us? Leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!
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 :)

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Diseased Shakespeare Jan 07, 2022

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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!!!
To send us an email - please do, we want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
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https://www.thebardcastyoudick.comTo support us (by giving us money - per episode if you like!)...
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To donate to an awesome charity, go here:
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Like us? Leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!
Episode Sources:
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.)

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Holiday Shakespeare - and - A Visit From Saint Falstaff!! Dec 24, 2021

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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!!!
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://www.thebardcastyoudick.comTo support us (by giving us money - per episode if you like!)...
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To donate to an awesome charity, go here:
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Like us? Leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!
Episode Sources:
Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!! And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)

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Drunken Trivial Pursuit Shakespeare - Part DEUX Dec 10, 2021

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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!!!!!)

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!)...
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To visit our website, go here:
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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.)

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Designing Shakespeare Nov 26, 2021

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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: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com
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https://www.thebardcastyoudick.comTo support us (by giving us money - per episode if you like!)...
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To donate to an awesome charity, go here:
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Like us? Leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!
Episode Sources:
Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!! And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)

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Seasonal Shakespeare Nov 12, 2021

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It'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
To visit our website, go here:
https://www.thebardcastyoudick.comTo support us (by giving us money - per episode if you like!)...
On Patreon, go here:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=true
Or on Paypal:
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To donate to an awesome charity, go here:
https://actorsfund.org/help-our-entertainment-communiity-covid-19-emergency-relief
Like us? Leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!
Episode Sources:
Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!! And cunts. (Owen insisted we add this.)
The inter webs :)

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