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Inspired by the hit podcast Song Exploder, Kevin and Dan spend this episode breaking down and analyzing Shakespeare's Sonnet #23. As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put beside his part, Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage, Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart; So I, for fear of trust, forget to say The perfect ceremony of love's rite, And in mine own love's strength seem to decay, O'ercharged with burthen of mine own love's might. O! let my looks be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more express'd. O! learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

This week we’ll expose ourselves to wretches, work out the ABCs of Julius Caesar, and take some time to expound upon the fine, fine folks at Delta and Bank of America who suddenly find themselves with a glut of money in their arts budget this summer and nowhere to send it (may we suggest patreon.com/noholdsbard?).

Are you on the way to see a production of RICHARD II? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

This week we'll outstare the lightning, love naturally, and chastise the error made in Britain's English Literature GCSE exam (basically their SAT) on the question which was written, "How does Shakespeare present the ways in which Tybalt's hatred of the Capulets influence the outcome of the play?". www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin come up with the full slate of attractions for America's new favorite fictional theme park, ShakespeareLand.

This week we’ll get well breathed, try to wrap our heads around what a “conscience” is, and send along our notes to Jordan Monsell, whose recenty published book “Ministers of Grace: The Unauthorized Shakespeare Parody of Ghosbusters” tells the story of the original Ghostbusters in iambic pentameter and Shakespeare’s vocabulary. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

Are you on the way to see a production of CORIOLANUS? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

This week we’ll banish you, sport Shakespeare, and celebrate our 100th episode by finally doing all the third things we’ve been teasing in our openers since episode one. This episode features a reading from Ryan Salvato. noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

For this month's Wildcard we have our very first live episode, recorded in Brooklyn on Shakespeare's 453rd birthday. This episode is also available as a Facebook Live video on our facebook page at Facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast. Special thanks to Dani Lencioni and Drew Broussard of EVELYN for the live acoustic performance of our theme song. Check them out at http://ohevelyn.com or buy their album at https://ohevelyn.bandcamp.com.

This week we’ll sweep vainly, grow up with a sea monster, and check in with the 56-year old teacher from a prestigious Manhattan public school who was recently found guilty of attempting to seduce his sixteen-year-old student by buying her beers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and then quoting Shakespeare before asking if he could kiss her. [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

Are you on the way to see a production of TITUS ANDRONICUS? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

This week we'll make a point about Romeo and Juliet, bend Shakespeare over, and cash in on the Shakespearian notebook we submitted to Antique Roadshow that is of "enormous scholarly value." [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

With Wrestlemania coming up this Sunday, and inspired by the words of the first Unified Champion "Y2J" Chris Jericho, Dan and Kevin illustrate the similarities between professional wrestling and Shakespeare.

After populating the hockey team (episode 17), baseball team (episode 42), fantasy football team (episode 64), and casting this year's musical production of 1776 (episode 56) at Shakespeare High, Dan and Kevin celebrate spring by filling the roster of the women's baseball team with the female characters of the canon (boom).

This week we'l acquaint some bedfellows, try Hermione, and rally around director Robert Icke's claim that British Shakespeare has been "poisoned" by the "bizarre" overacting of an older generation of thespians (shots fired!). [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

Are you on the way to see a production of JULIUS CAESAR? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

This week we’ll gaze, drop rhymes so tight we become immortal, and share a really cool idea about a new collaboration we have in place where…oh. Apparently it’s going to be produced at the Public Theater now. Rats.

For this month's Wildcard, we are joined by five of our nearest and dearest to draft six institutional Shakespeare theater seasons from the canon - with each play being pulled from everyone else's board once it is selected. Hopefully that's interesting! Special thanks to the brave guests for this week's experiment: Sarah Enloe americanshakespearecenter.com Madeline Sayet madelinesayet.com Charlene Smith bravespiritstheater.com Kristin Clippard kristinclippard.com Joe Pine ohioshakespeare.com

This week we'll pause, seek a greater meaning despite all being well, and break down the video of rapper Big Sean's performance in a middle school production of THE TEMPEST. [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

Are you on the way to see a production of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

This week we'll hunt the lion, seek the dystopian linings in the Scottish Play, and explore the New Oxford Shakespeare Journal’s claim that Hamlet may actually have been written in 1603 as a way to impress James I rather than in 1601 where it had been previously dated [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

For this month's Wildcard episode we throw ten duel questions at Mya Gosling, the artist and author of the Shakespeare webcomic Good Tickle Brain ("the world's foremost and very possibly only stick figure Shakespeare webcomic"). You can find Mya at GoodTickleBrain.com, on Patreon at patreon.com/goodticklebrain, on Twitter @GoodTickleBrain, and on Facebook at Facebook.com/goodticklebrain.

This week we'll slip the world, seek justice in Venice, and check in with Laurie Davidson, star of TNT's WILL, regarding his quote that the show "takes that dusty thing in history books called William Shakespeare and drags him kicking and screaming into this century," which is a pretty bold claim for a show that will be cancelled before the end of its first season. [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

Are you on the way to see a production of MEASURE FOR MEASURE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

This week we’ll make a scarecrow of the law, find meaning in Comedy, and check in with some students from Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to check out the algorithm for author attribution that revealed this month that Shakespeare had a co-author on many of his plays.

For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin cast ten of the most dearly departed of 2016 in their first Shakespearian roles at The Pearly Gate.

In what's becoming a holiday tradition here at No Holds Bard, we're happy to give you this year's Christmas gift: Dr. Seuss' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS converted to iambic pentameter. It was either this or a sweater, so we hope you like it. Performed by Dan Beaulieu and Kevin Condardo Written by Dan Beaulieu

This week we’ll silently rejoice, do what we will with Twelfth Night, and remove Shakespeare from our podcast and replace him with poet Audre Lorde, as Penn students did this week when they removed a gigantic portrait of the Bard from the central staircase of their English building to “more fully represent the global media that are now studied."

Are you on the way to see a production of TWELFTH NIGHT? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

This week we’ll get ready, relate to a King, and give notes on incoming White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s abandoned screenplay adaptation of Titus Andronicus titled simply "Andronicus" that features Titus as the leader of an intergalactic army on a mission to save Planet Earth and who are forced to take human form when their mission goes awry. [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

In this month's Wildcard episode, we share some ideas for holiday gifts for the Shakespeare lover in your life. [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

This week we'll use adversity, trap tragic disaster, and guess what else Shakespeare's actors didn't clean up after themselves backstage so that archaeologists could find it during their work earlier this month at the Curtain.

Are you on the way to see a production of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

For this month's Wildcard episode, we sit down for an in-depth interview with the director of the first American-originated production of Jonathan Bates' play BEING SHAKESPEARE.

Are you on the way to see a production of KING LEAR? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

Dan and Kevin invent and play a new parlor game for Shakespeare fanatics called WILL, ACTUALLY, with the hope that it will sweep the nation and yield many tweets with high viral potential.

Are you on the way to see a production of OTHELLO? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

Inspired by the hit podcast Song Exploder, Kevin and Dan spend this episode breaking down and analyzing Shakespeare's Sonnet #97. How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness every where! And yet this time remov'd was summer's time, The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, Bearing the wanton burden of the prime, Like widow'd wombs after their lord's decease: Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me But hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, the very birds are mute; Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.

After populating the hockey team (episode 17), baseball team (episode 42), and casting this year's musical production of 1776 (episode 56) at Shakespeare High, Dan and Kevin turn to the gridiron to each draft their Fantasy Football teams with the remaining characters from the canon (boom).

Are you on the way to see a production of AS YOU LIKE IT? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

Are you on the way to see a production of TROILUS AND CRESSIDA? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

After populating the hockey team (episode 17) and baseball team (episode 42) at Shakespeare High, Dan and Kevin turn to the Drama Department to cast a production of Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards' 1776 with characters from Shakespeare's canon. This episode features what we believe to be the only "U-S-A!" chant to ever appear on a Shakespeare podcast.

Dan and Kevin debrief on three major things each they learned after the Seven Stages Shakespeare Company one-day, twelve hour presentation of eight of Shakespeare's histories (Richard II, Henry IV 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI 1, 2, and 3, and Richard III). After this one we probably won't talk about the histories for a while, so enjoy!

Are you on the way to see a production of LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

For an upcoming Seven Stages Shakespeare Company one-day, twelve hour presentation of eight of Shakespeare's histories (Richard II, Henry IV 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI 1, 2, and 3, and Richard III), Dan and Kevin have been tasked with cutting four of the plays apiece and haven't yet had the chance to debrief about their cutting experience. They also needed to come up with something to post as a Wildcard episode for this week. Thus, this half hour. Enjoy!

Are you on the way to see a production of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

In this month's Wildcard episode, we pay our respects to Prince. This episode features a reading from CJ Lewis, as recorded during the Seven Stages Shakespeare Company's Shakespeare Beat Night at The Press Room in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on April 21, 2016.

Are you on the way to see a production of ROMEO AND JULIET? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

This week we highlight the Shakespearian qualities of that Broadway hit about the second most accomplished Federalist in American history, HAMILTON.