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Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard — 53 episodes

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053 Renaissance Reddit Tales: The Decameron and The Heptameron

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052 Shotgun Marriages French Style: All's Well That Ends Well (1598)

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051 You blind one cyclops! Homer's Odyssey (Books 5-12)

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050 Trojans and Cheaters: Troilus and Cressida (1602)

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049 Lads, Nuns and Courtesans: Aphra Behn's The Rover (1677)

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048 Falstaff but Italian: Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff (1893)

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047 Falstaff's Romance Scam: The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602)

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046 Hamlette! Asta Nielsen's Hamlet (1921)

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045 THE BIG ONE: Hamlet (1599)

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044 Those Crazy Spaniards: Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (1582-1592)

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043 Love Triangles and Psychological Torture: Twelfth Night (1601)

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042 Ancient Step-Mums in Trouble: Jean Racine's Phedre (1677)

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041 Cross-Dressing in the Great Outdoors! As You Like It (1599)

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040 3 Years On! A Restrospective on the Podcast

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039 You're in a cult, dad! Molière's Le Tartuffe (1664)

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038 The Ides of March: Julius Caesar (1599)

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037 Stabby Stabby: Plutarch's Life of Julius Caesar (100s AD)

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036 Take My Mistress, Please... AGAIN!: The Two Gentlemen of Verona REDUX (1589)

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035 The Elizabethan James Cameron: Henry V (1599)

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034 Put Away Your Sword: Aristophanes' Lysistrata (411 BCE)

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033 Listening to Your Evil Friend: Much Ado About Nothing (1598)

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032 Keanu Reeves is Trust Fund Prince Hal: Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho (1991)

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031 Princely Hypocrite: King Henry IV, Part 2 (1597)

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030 The Only Good Man in Literature: Orson Welles' The Chimes At Midnight (1966)

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029 Notice Me, Dad! King Henry IV, Part 1 (1597)

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028 A Girl in Trousers!? Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s “The Roaring Girl” (1611)

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027 Neither A Borrower Nor A Lender Be: The Merchant of Venice (1598)

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026 Neo-Verona is about to EXPLODE: Studio Gonzo’s “Romeo X Juliet” Eps. 1-3 (2007)

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025 The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Kings: King John (1596)

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024 Mr Sandman, Bring Me a Midsummer Nights' Dream: Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman #19 and #75

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023 This is a comedy!?: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1596)

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022 “A pound of your fair flesh, Astro Boy!”: Osamu Tezuka’s ベニスの商人/Merchant of Venice (1959)

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021 Disaster Gays: Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II (1593)

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020 The Prequels Were Better: Richard II (1595)

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019 Five Tudor Sonnets and Us Being Idiots

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018 Onii-san~!!: John Ford’s ”’Tis Pity She’s a W****” (1629)

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017 Boy Meets Girl, Boy and Girl Die: Romeo and Juliet

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016 Carry On College Princes: Love’s Labour’s Lost

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015 Shakespeare’s Edgelord Phase: Titus Andronicus

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014 Atrocities Roman Style: Seneca’s “Medea” and “Thyestes”

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013 Poor Artists Imitate, Great Artists Steal: The Comedy of Errors

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012 2000-Years-Old But Feeling 60: Plautus’ The Brothers Menaechmus

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011 The First Masterpiece: Richard III

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010 Joan of Arc’s in This One! Henry VI, Part 1

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009 Roman Psycho: The Rape of Lucrece

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008 Richard III, the early years: Henry VI, Part 3

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007 Shakespeare’s Rival: Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Part 1

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006 That Play You’ve Sort Of Heard Of: Henry VI, Part 2

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005 The Dark Souls of Poetry: Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (Book 1)

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004 Chaste-Boi and Cougar-Lady: Venus and Adonis

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003 A Woman, Her Husband, Her Brother and A Priest: John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi

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002 Renaissance Red Pill: The Taming of the Shrew

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001 Take My Mistress... Please: The Two Gentlemen of Verona