What You Will

It's time to polish off the cast of TROILUS AND CRESSIDA! This week we discuss the play's last remaining divas, get REALLY into insult comedy, and read a Goodreads review for the ages.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

This week we continue to discuss TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, and wrestle with the age-old question: is it still cheating if your dad makes you switch armies?Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

We're back with more TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. Come for the ahistorical post-modern anti-romance, stay for the syphilis!Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

This week we discuss Shakespeare's least romantic romance, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. Join us for bizarro Iliad fanfiction featuring Troilus, Cressida, Ulysses, Achilles, and Achilles' very real girlfriend who goes to a different school.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

Danielle is sick this week, so producer Valerie comes off the bench for a rollicking discussion about the greatest literature ever performed by actors, and also some Shakespeare while we're at it.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

Bonjour, bitches! This week on Bag Charm, we continue our deep dive on Emily in Paris season 5! Featuring fake Fendis, the hottest Roman menswear, and a meditation on the demonic nature of Emily's putrid soul.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!Our theme music is "Off to Osaka" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Welcome back to our continuing series on the groundbreaking 3D cinematic tour de force that rocked Hollywood: James Cameron's Avat- wait, sorry, we're being handed a note... It says "Kiss Me Kate Part 2" in Cole Porter's handwriting? Sorry, everyone. That's a pretty common mistake.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

Brush up your Shakespeare! No, really, we know we talk about it a lot on this show, but it's FINALLY time for Kiss Me Kate! What's your favorite tenuous rhyming couplet?Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

Oops oops oops! We accidentally talked about Malvolio twice! But that’s okay. He needed a win. Join us as we finish out discussing the cast of our namesake play!Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

This week, we continue our Twelfth Night character analysis with the drunks! We contend with the sadness underpinning the group's lighthearted comedy, unpack more gender shenanigans, and podcast on empty stomachs. Plus, Charlotte lists every Nintendo character she knows.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

This week we return to the land of Illyria and the wonderful world of Twelfth Night! We begin our character analysis with the main cast, and... we don't get very far. This is going to take a while. Strap in!Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

This week we are joined by Jessie Austrian, co-artistic director of the fabulous and fearless Fiasco Theater! We talk twins, love, language, and get a sneak peak at Fiasco's new adaptation of The Comedy of Errors!Fiasco Theater is an ensemble theater company based in NYC that will be bringing their latest adaptation, in collaboration with The Saunders Collective, of "The Comedy of Errors" to Actors Theatre of Louisville. It will also be available for live streaming. To stay in the loop with this production, and all things Fiasco, click here: fiascotheater.comSupport the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

You there! Podcast listener! What's today, my fine fellow? Why, today is the first day of our series on Twelfth Night, or What You Will. That's the name of our podcast! Join us for a lively discussion about one of Shakespeare's heaters as we finally nail down the definition of the twelve days of Christmas, and Charlotte almost gets the hook for talking about Coriolanus again.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

Get your tissues ready, because this week we watch the 2025 film HAMNET. Talking points include crying-induced headaches, the beauty of catharsis, and some very tasteful pitches for a Shakespearean Cinematic Universe.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

Last name: Bastard. First name: The. Move over, Jon Snow – it's time to talk about one of English lit's most underappreciated illegitimate sons. Plus, we take a detour to talk about the Aristocats, and reiterate that this is NOT an anti-Catholic podcast.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

Welcome back to the freshly Normanized England of King John! We go through the play's major characters and debate what type of animated Robin Hood animal they would be. (Except King John, who is OBVIOUSLY a pathetic little cuck lion without a mane and therefore needs no debate.)Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

Hang a calfskin on your recreant limbs, because it's time to discuss KING JOHN! Talking points include neptocide, the Magna Carta, and Disney's foxy Robin Hood.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

It's double, double podcast and trouble! In this year's Spooktacular, we discuss spooky Shakespearian Halloween costumes, rank the Bard's ghosts on a tier list, and build our ideal Shakespeare-themed haunted house.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

Journey with us to the halcyon days of ye olde 2021 as we watch Joel Coen's THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH! Talking points include German expressionism, Ross's snatched waist, and what inflation has done to the price of witches.TW: This episode contains discussions of suicide, pregnancy loss and child murder.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

If there's three things we know about movies, it's that Viggo actually breaks his toe when he kicks the helmet in The Two Towers, the rain in Singin' In the Rain is actually milk, and The Lion King is actually based on Hamlet. Well, kind of. Are you ready to learn all about it? Oh, c'mon, don't make us say it... BE PREPARED! Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

This week: the thrilling conclusion to our unprecedented FOUR-part series on A Midsummer Night’s Dream! We round out the cast of our dream high school play with the fairies. Plus: do YOU know what a changeling is?Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

We continue our grim work of casting a high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, this time with the best group of characters: the rude mechanicals! Plus, we play a new game.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

This week, we remain in Fairyland, and begin casting our dream production of A Midsummer Night's Dream according to high school stereotypes.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

Just in time for the actual middle of summer, it's time to start our deep dive into A Midsummer Night's Dream! Join us as we put a girdle round about the pod in 62 minutes.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

Get totally whelmed as we discuss everyone's favorite adaptation of everyone's least favorite Shakespeare play, 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU. Danielle and Charlotte talk 90s rom-coms, strong female protagonists, and do their very best to continue avoiding Cole Porter by any means necessary.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

That’s right: it’s time for MORE-iolanus! In an unprecedented third episode on Coriolanus, we discuss our ideal stagings of the play, and map it more directly onto (sorry) current events. Don’t worry, there won’t be a Part Four-iolanus. We promise.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

How many scars do YOU have? Probably not as many as our boy Gaius Marcius Coriolanus. Show us your scars. How many of them do you have? Roll up your sleeves and show us how many scars you have right now. Our deep dive into Coriolanus continues!Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

Just in time for Pride Month, it’s everyone’s favorite homoerotic meditation on fascism, the stomach as it relates to the rest of the body, and mommy issues! Coriolanus has, uh, a lot to say about our current political moment. Let’s get into it!Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

This week, we take you through everyone's favorite Elton John money-laundering scheme: GNOMEO & JULIET! Come with us on a rollicking journey of questionable adaptation choices, porcelain castration, and the love lives of lawn flamingos.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

Welcome back to Taming of the Two: Electric Shrewgaloo! Join us as we mourn the Animaniacs (RIP), rate hunting dog names, ponder an over-abundance of tutors, and finally solve misogyny once and for all.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

We're back from the dead to bring you everyone's favorite manosphere YouTube prank show, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW! Join us for a lively discussion of gaslighting, Shakespearean Pixar shorts, and the constant threat of Cole Porter music.Support the show by telling a friend, following us on Instagram, and rating us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts!

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Get caught up on our favorite trashy reality TV show, Antony and Cleopatra. We eat a deliciously youthful salad, speculate on which Shakespeare character is getting the most into quarantine baking, and chill with a horny eunuch. CW: Suicide

It's everyone's favorite Arrested Development spin-off, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. We discuss the Kardashians' infamous rule of ancient Egypt, why Trolls World Tour is the zenith of cinema, and how snake bites are a great opportunity for improv comedy. CW: Suicide

Did you know that Shakespeare wrote King Lear while in quarantine? Or at least, that's the latest from Twitter. Join us as we yell about a tweet, bore you with historical context, and then devolve into an unhinged discussion about Star Trek quotes as we slowly lose our minds. We recorded this a few weeks (eons?) ago, so apologies for any early quarantine naiveté. We were so young back in March!

It's (kind of) Valentine's Day, and we watched SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE! Was it any good? Who knows, we spent the whole time staring into young Joseph Fiennes' big baby eyes. Featuring a jackhammer, clanging pipes, GOOP, and special guest Jamal James, who shames us thoroughly on our lack of rom-com knowledge.

Break out your tin foil hat and join us as we watch ANONYMOUS, a truly unhinged Roland Emmerich movie about how Shakespeare was a dirty poor and only fancy boys can write plays! Look out, Oxfordians, we're coming for you.

Surprise! It's still winter! In part two of our discussion on THE WINTER'S TALE, we discuss hawk-based meet-cutes, double disguises, and post-apocalyptic springtime. Featuring TV and film star Margaret Colin, Shakespearean actress Jean Tafler, and an Act 5 mother/daughter reunion.

Brr. In this most cozy episode, we get hopped up on hot cocoa and yell frantically about THE WINTER'S TALE. Yes, this is the one with the bear. Feat. the constant, agonizing hissing sound of our radiator.

CONTENT WARNING: Sexual assault Danielle and Charlotte finally complete their grim work of discussing THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. Topics include clown species, the ending of "Grease," and how to gracefully embody a garbage character. Special guest and former gentlemen David Merten!

This Halloween we bring you sp0oky commentary on SLEEP NO MORE, the ~immersive~ theatre piece based on MACBETH. Featuring a peek backstage with special guest Jenna Hokanson, an exhaustive Halloween costume retrospective, and a *real* ghost story. Light spoilers ahead, and a mild content warning for references to sexual harassment and audience participation.

BOO! This week we discuss ghosts, witches, and the Bard's most infamous CURSE (plus Shakespearean costume ideas and the fact that LeVar Burton directed 'Smart House').

JULIUS CAESAR is back! And his ghost wants to know when you're free for brunch. Special guest Avery DiUbaldo joins us as we discuss eating fire, the collapse of real world democracy, and how to win debate club after your friend gets stabbed.

It's JULIUS CAESAR! Shakespeare's only Aaron Sorkin play! Danielle and Charlotte talk politics, cobblers, and whether or not lions are technically a type of weather.

It's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING! Again! We talk shady friars, mustache-twirling villains, and how everyone wants to kink-shame Margaret. Featuring real life couple Sara Hymes and Greg Phelps!

It's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING! We talk about Elizabethan rom-coms, evil brothers, infinite nieces, and proto-feminist icons. Boy, that Beatrice and Benedick sure do hate each other, huh?

It's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS! Again! Charlotte won’t stop singing, Danielle wants to gossip with the Duke, and special guest Luke Jackson joins to talk about twins, goofs, and his very first Shakespearean encounter.

It's the beloved Mary-Kate and Ashley film, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS! Danielle frees a house elf, Charlotte insists on making everything about capitalism, and everyone advocates justice for Nell.

In the second half of our discussion of ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, we talk about frat boy Parolles and his drum, who's who in 'Beauty and the Beast,' and whether or not Helena is a Mary-Sue. Special guest Emily Lyon!