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Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard

Shakespeare and Pals

A Shakespeare recap podcast, talking about them in the order he wrote them.We also do Shakespeare’s peers, influences and influencees

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026 Neo-Verona is about to EXPLODE: Studio Gonzo’s...

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2024/04/25

It’s Romeo and Juliet as an anime! What more do you want?It’s Shakespeare’s tale, but not as we know it. Verona is a far future city in the sky, and all the nobles ride pegasi. Years ago, the evil Lord Montague massacred the Capulets – all but one. Juliet survived, and now spends her adolescence cross-dressing as a boy and moonlighting as a masked vigilante. But how will her life change when she meets Romeo at ball? Join us for flying horses, daring-do, and shoujo romance! Make sure to subscribe

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01:53:28

025 The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Kings: King John...

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2024/03/28

The one that you forgot Shakespeare did.King John just can’t catch a break. He’s got challengers to the throne, war with France, and now the Pope’s getting on his back. Desperate times call for desperate measures, which include knocking off his young nephew Arthur. Does this play deserve the obscurity it’s fallen into? Sophie and Michael find out! Sources: The Oxford Shakespeare: King John (Oxford University Press) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, edited by Brian Vickers (Routledge)

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01:20:16

024 Mr Sandman, Bring Me a Midsummer Nights' Dream:...

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2024/02/22

Shakespeare stole all his ideas… from the god of DreamsOne of the greatest comic book series of all time, Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman plays with almost all human culture, so how could Gaiman overlook Shakespeare? In The Sandman #19, Shakespeare plays Midsummer Night’s Dream for an audience of fairies. In The Sandman #75, Shakespeare longs to retire his magic pen just once he’s finished his play about Prospero laying down his magic wand. Is Neil Gaiman’s use of Shakespeare more than just a clever

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01:51:34

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

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2024/01/25

It’s the one with the donkey-headed tradie! An Athenian hero with his Amazon war-bride condemns a young girl to death or nunnery, so young lovers flee into the forest, followed by two other young lovers who don’t love each other yet, so a fairy king tries to fix the love quadrangle, but not before he makes his wife fall for a donkey-man mutant to get revenge on her for not handing over an royal Indian toddler. That old chestnut. One of Shakespeare’s most famous… comedies??? Like a lot of

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01:31:31

022 “A pound of your fair flesh, Astro Boy!”: Osamu...

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2023/12/28

The Walt Disney of Japan took a break from Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. Did you know Osamu Tezuka adapted The Merchant of Venice? It’s like if Walt Disney adapted Crime and Punishment… which Osamu Tezuka also did… Tezuka had range! Does Tezuka’s style capture the folktale darkness of the Merchant of Venice? Tune in to find out! Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be sent to shakespeare.pals@gmail.com Sources: Japanese edition: Osamu Tezuka,

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02:03:54

021 Disaster Gays: Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II...

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2023/11/23

Gayer than Shakespeare – Got your attention? Finding queer subtext in renaissance plays usually takes digging. Not here though. Marlowe has his King and boytoy howling sweet nothings to each other. And this is the Christian 1590s – surely these two disaster gays have a happy ending? Gay love, political intrigue, rebellion, far too many characters – can old Kit Marlowe match the quality and convolutedness of Shakespeare’s history plays? Join Michael and Sophie to find out! Make sure to subscribe and

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02:10:29

020 The Prequels Were Better: Richard II (1595)

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2023/10/26

The Prequel Tetralogy begins! Before the Richard III, before Henry VI, before the War of the Roses, there was unmanly, luxurious Richard II. Under his all-powerful negligence, a squabble between nobles becomes a cause for rebellion against the crown, with Henry Bolingbroke becoming Henry IV! ... spoilers... Sandwiched between Richard III and the Henry plays, has this history play been unfairly overshadowed? Join us to find out! Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and

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019 Five Tudor Sonnets and Us Being Idiots

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2023/09/28

Turns out we’re publishing this one… We’re going on an unstructured ramble about the most structured poetic form. This month, we’re looking at five Tudor sonnets – and only two of them are Shakespeare! A sonnet might just be fourteen, but they pack a lot of food for thought into each one. Join us as we discuss: Thomas Wyatt’s Whoso List to Hunt, I Know Where Is an Hind Philip Sidney’s “Stella, Since Thou So Right A Princess Art” Richard Barnfield’s “Cherry-lipt Adonis in his snowie

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01:59:35

018 Onii-san~!!: John Ford’s ”’Tis Pity She’s a...

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2023/08/24

We really have been trying to make this podcast more family friendly... Here we have an edgy take on Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet’s problem was there families were too far apart. Giovanni and Annabella’s families are too close. They’re the same family. They’re brother and sister. But that’s not all, we’ve also got street fights, dumb nephews, evil Spaniards, and scene-stealing banditti. Is this Renaissance tragedy more than an exercise in edginess? Join us as we discuss “‘Tis Pity She’s a

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02:04:29

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

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2023/07/27

Here’s a hot-take: Romeo and Juliet is a love story. Shakespeare’s tragic love story is so iconic I don’t even need to say anything about it. You’ve Romeo and Juliet with New York gangs and garden gnomes. But join us to see all the details and subtext the updates miss. Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be sent to shakespeare.pals@gmail.com Sources: The Oxford Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Oxford University Press) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, edited by

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02:33:12

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

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2023/06/29

You have no idea what this one’s about, do you? Great title though. Would you believe this romantic comedy about four nobles trying to become celibate scholars actually holds up quite well? Would you believe it has some of Shakespeare’s feistiest heroines? Would you believe it has one of his most realistic depictions of causal romance? Well, you’re just going have to listen to find out. Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be sent to

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01:56:24

015 Shakespeare’s Edgelord Phase: Titus Andronicus

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2023/05/25

This one gets all the trigger warnings: rape, murder, racism, amputation, cannibalism, questionable anachronisms, and probably a few others I’ve forgotten. Does this draw you in? It certainly scared off centuries of Shakespeare admirers. Some early critics even refused to believe Shakespeare penned this blood bath. Is Titus Andronicus a good riff on the Roman tragedy? Or is it all just a bit much? Michael and Sophie dig in. Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be

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01:31:30

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

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2023/04/27

We’re forced to read “Hamlet” at school. Shakespeare was forced to read “Thyestes”. Family squabbles turning hyperviolent has a long history, nowhere more violent than in these Ancient Roman classics. Do Seneca’s bloody plays still have power to shock? We dig into “Medea” and “Thyestes”. Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be sent to shakespeare.pals@gmail.com Sources: Seneca, Six Tragedies, trans. Emily Wilson (Oxford University Press) Seneca, Four Tragedies

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01:51:17

013 Poor Artists Imitate, Great Artists Steal: The...

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2023/03/30

How does a 400-year-old play feel more old-fashioned than a 2000-year-old one? Shakespeare brings family values, civic virtue, and basic human decency to Plautus’ farce of selfishness and hedonism. Like West Side Story to Roman and Juliet, Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors is to Plautus’ The Brothers Menaechmus. The mistaken identities and whirling confusion is the same but the values are not. Join us to discuss adaptations, sanitation, grafting a third dimension onto cardboard cut-outs, and

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01:42:48

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

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2023/02/23

You know how you were forced to read Shakespeare in school? Shakespeare was forced to read Plautus. Any Renaissance writer worth his salt riffed on this Roman Republican comedian. Shakespeare liked this play so much he based The Comedy of Errors on it. It’s a classic tale of long-separated twins getting mistaken for each other. Has this 2000-year-old comedy aged well? Get ready for mistaken identity, hedonism, the art of translation, 1960s-style sexism, ancient-style slavery and – above all –

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01:57:28

011 The First Masterpiece: Richard III

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2023/01/26

Finally! We’re getting to the masterpieces. If Shakespeare had died before this one, do you think this podcast would exist? No! You wouldn’t even have heard of Shakespeare. For hundreds of years after release, critics of this play thought it was just too bloody and depraved. Does it still have its power to shock? Join us for a bloody tale of fratricide, seduction, propaganda and some of the best speeches in Shakespeare. Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be

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01:37:56

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

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2022/12/29

When you get to the end of the story, where do you go? The beginning! At the end of Henry VI, Part 3, Henry was dead and Richard III was ascendant. Now Shakespeare gives us a Star Wars-style prequel. One question remains: Is this play as good as the Star Wars prequels? Join us for a war story of derring-do, Joan of Arc, and French villains with all the menace of Team Rocket. Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be sent to: shakespeare.pals@gmail.com Sources The

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01:10:31

009 Roman Psycho: The Rape of Lucrece

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2022/11/24

If the title isn’t content warning enough… CW: sexual assault and suicide Another narrative poem from the master playwright. A tale of the sex scandal that undid the Roman monarchy. And also a ten-page description of a painting… Yes, the poem is salacious, but Shakespeare isn’t just slapping together a potboiler. Expanding a three page story from Livy’s History of Rome to one-hundred pages, Shakespeare gives us his famous psychological monologues. Here we have early glimpses of the pen that would

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02:17:43

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

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2022/10/27

The War of the Roses! A pacifist King, a warrior Queen, rebellious lords, and more battles than you can shake a wooden sword at. And like Revenge of the Sith, we see the rise of one of fiction’s most famous baddies – Richard III! Is this much-ignored war-story worth picking up? Michael, Greg, and Sophie find out. Sources: The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare, by Anna Beer, from Wiley Blackwell William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life, by S. Schoenbaum, from Oxford University

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02:23:09

007 Shakespeare’s Rival: Christopher Marlowe’s...

Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard ·

2022/09/29

The Avengers Endgame of its day! The bombastic bio-play of the Middle Eastern conqueror Timur. Written by Christopher Marlowe, smoker, spy, and Shakespeare’s best frenemy. After 400 years does this uber-popular, uber-influential hit of the Elizabethan stage still hold up? Michael, Greg and Sophie dig in. Sources: Christopher Marlowe: The Critical Heritage, ed. Miller MacLure, from Routledge “Christopher Marlowe” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Charles Nicholl,

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