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

Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson

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

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Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson

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

Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson

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

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Can you believe it???  We can't. The beginning of our fifth season!! And what better way to celebrate than to talk about Henry V???Many thanks to you, our loyal listeners, for keeping us on the airwaves AND on the straight and narrow.  Kind of,
You know, dear listeners... we are such dear, dear friends (and have been for so many years!) that we truly feel as close to siblings as two people can get - who aren't actually biologically related. (Is blood actually thicker than water?)Plus,
April 23 is Shakespeare's Birthday!!! (And also his Death Day, but that's not important right now.)To honor the natal day of the Bard, in this episode we discuss all things birthday!! Where birthdays are mentioned in the canon, cakes, presents,
You know, dear listeners - we have a lot to say. Certainly about Shakespeare!! And we are going to continue to say it!!In this episode we dive to the very Bottom (Ha! get it??) of A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Lovers, Fairies, Mechanicals - what
We had so much fun delving deeply into Julius Caesar last episode that we decided to tackle one of the comedies!!  Twelfth Night is quite special to us, because we played Viola and Malvolio together a bunch of years back at Tulsa Shakespeare in
Beware the Ides of March!!!So, last week we were just shooting the proverbial shite, and it was - of course - March 15, the Ides of March. Which led us to a conversation about Julius Caesar. Which led us to a conversation about the state of pol
Listeners!!! We are bound and determined to get through all of Shakespeare's sonnets!!!In this episode we are joined by two dear friends and amazing actors, Amy Landis and Mark Edward Lang.  What a joy to hear them do beautiful justice to the B
One of our lovely listeners, Susan, asked us "Which characters would you most enjoy (or not) to have a meal with?"When we read it, we thought: What a fantastic idea for a podcast episode!!!So this is it!!! We discuss who in the canon we'd love
We warned you!! We did!! We said there are 154 sonnets and we are bound and determined to get to ALL of them!!In this episode, the lovely and supremely talent Bruce Cromer joins us to discuss Sonnet 126 - the WEIRD sonnet.  The sonnet that marc
Oh listeners... a year ago the podcast was in the heart center, Stratford Upon Avon.  We were reminiscing about our lovely adventures there and thought...What about the swans?Luckily for us, LA's partner Don is an animal guy.  So we asked him t
Happy New Year!!!2024 is going to be A LOT here is the US of A, so we thought we'd make ourselves happy right out of the gate by discussing those characters in the canon that we are drawn to (for various and assorted  reasons)Who are yours???To
Friend, Romans, Dicks and Dickesses, lend us your ears!!!'Tis the season for merry making, and in this episode we do just that!!! We have invited back to the pod our dear friends Patrick Lawlor and Harper York for some holiday amusements - name
Remember when you were a little kid, and your mom and dad made you go to church/synagogue/mosque even though you would rather have stayed home and watched cartoons?Yeah, us too.  But that has very little to do with this episode, except that we
Yeah, yeah, we know... talk about lawyers in Shakespeare and everyone quotes the famous line to kill them all.  But do they actually need to all be killed?And what about the doctors in the canon? Are they as shitty as the lawyers?In this episod
Okay... we know that we have a penchant for discussing the shittiest of characters in the canon. It's fun, we can't help it. Don't judge!!!However....In this episode, we talk about those characters that are genuinely good, honest, loving, compa
Think 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
Okay. 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.......
"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? Wh
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 a
Today'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,
" 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 Shake
"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,
"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
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 w
What 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 Shake
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