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Film Shakespeare - Part 2 - Hamlet! Sep 04, 2020

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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!!!!
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Episode Sources:
Shakespeare: Script, Stage, Screen: David Bevington, Anne Marie Welsh, Michael L. Greenwald
A History of Shakespeare on Screen - A Century of Film and Television: Kenneth S. Rothwell
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film: Russell Jackson
www.IMDB.com
www.Wikipedia.com

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Assholes, Douchebags, and Fuck-ups in Shakespeare Aug 21, 2020

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What 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!!!
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Film Shakespeare - Part I Aug 07, 2020

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Did 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.)
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Episode sources:
Shakespeare: Script, Stage, Screen: David Bevington, Anne Marie Welsh, Michael L. Greenwald
A History of Shakespeare on Screen - A Century of Film and Television: Kenneth S. Rothwell
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film: Russell Jackson
www.IMDB.com
www.Wikipedia.com

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Was it Shakespeare? Jul 24, 2020

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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.edu

David Kathman and Terry Ross at The Shakespeare Authorship Page
Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World

Russ McDonald, The Bedord Companion to Shakespeare

Ron Rosenbaum, The Shakespeare Wars

James Shapiro, Contested Will

The Shakespeare Authorship Coalition at www.doubtaboutwill.org

C-Span.org, Shakespeare: Author or Pseudonym?
BBC America, Did Shakespeare Really Write His Plays? A Few Theories Examined
Robert McCrum, Who Really Wrote Shakespeare? The Guardian
Ben Jonson, To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, Poetry Foundation

Doug Stewart, To Be or Not to Be Shakespeare, Smithsonian Magazine
Rev. Dr. Paul Edmundson and Stanley Wells CBE, Shakespeare Bites Back: Not So Anonymous, www.bloggingshakespeare.com
Dave Fowler, Did Shakespeare Write His Plays, williamshakespearefacts.com
Paul DeFilippo, Did Shakespeare Actually Write His Plays, http://qcvoices.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu
Charles Champlin, <i> SHAKSPERE </i> SHAKEN BY MOOT COURT, Los Angeles Times

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Death by Shakespeare Jul 10, 2020

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What 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.
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Episode Sources:
Harkup, Katherine: Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts – Bloomsbury Sigma
Meier, Allison: The Poisons, Potions and Charms of Shakespeare's Plays, hyperallergic.com
Mabillard, Amanda. Violence in Shakespeare's Plays. www.shakespeare-online.com
Slingsby, Dr. Tim: Would Shakespeare's Potions Really Work? www.britishcouncil.org

Huxtable, Ryan J.: On the Nature of Shakespeare's Cursed Hebona

Top Ten Most Interesting Shakespeare Deaths: SmashingLists.com

Hammond, Claudia: Would Shakespeare’s poisons and drugs work in reality? BBC.com
Maltby, Kate: What Shakespeare cam- and can't - teach us about Covid-19

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Aubrey Whitlock, The American Shakespeare Center

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Plague Shakespeare Jun 26, 2020

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This 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!!
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Episode sources:
Dickson, Andrew: Shakespeare in Lockdown: did he write King Lear in plague quarantine? Printed in The Guardian

Greenblatt, Stephen: What Shakespeare Actually Wrote About the Plague Printed in The New Yorker

Maltby, Kate: What Shakespeare can – and can’t – teach us about Covid-19 CNN.com

McDonald, Russ: The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare

Shapiro, James: The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606

Smith, Emma: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Living With Pandemics Printed in The New York Times

Yachnin, Paul: After the plague, Shakespeare imagined a world saved from poison, slander, and the evil eye TheConversation.com

Young, Robin and Hagan, Allison: He Didn’t Flee: Shakespeare and the Plague wbur.org

MacGregor, Neil - BBC: Transcript – Shakespeare’s Restless World – Programme 17 - https://www.bbc.co.uk

Shapiro, James: How Shakespeare’s great escape from the plague changed theatre Printed in The Guardian

Harkup, Katherine: Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts – Bloomsbury Sigma

Miller, Dr. Yvette Alt: Shakespeare and the Plague aish.com

Wells, Stanley, Shakespeare and the Plague, printed in The Sunday Times, London

Parnes, Dori: The Pandemic Ravaged Europe and Left Many Unemployed. One of Them Was William Shakespeare Haaretz.com

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Filthy Shakespeare Jun 09, 2020

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Sent us a text, you dicks!!

Were 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.

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