No Holds Bard
213 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 241 ratingsThe Shakespeare podcast Shakespeare would have listened to!* This weekly podcast comes in several flavors. Every other week, you'll get our regular episode features a lightning round on several intersections of Shakespeare and the present day, an underused Shakespearian phrase that you can roll into your everyday conversation to impress/annoy your friends, and a homework assignment currently being blown off by a lazy high school student from the internet. Once a month, we offer SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE SHAKESPEARE, a half-hour briefing on a specific play to listen to on your commute to the theater that will prepare you to be the best little audience member you can be. And in the fourth week of the month, Dan and Kevin will provide some Shakespearian wildcard programming that will almost certain result in them swearing at each other. (*we assume.)
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NHB 164 - The Wooing Is Too Urgent
August 04, 2018 02:55 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBThis week we’ll woo with urgency, shine the green light on King Lear, and break down a few of the 2600 new sonnets created by a sonnet writing bot created by researchers at IBM Research Australia, the University of Toronto, and the University of Melbourne. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast Kevin Condardo c/o No Holds Bard P.O. Box 170004 Brooklyn, NY 11217
NHB 163 - Shakespeare's Canon Power Rankings, Part I
July 26, 2018 00:36 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBDan and Kevin go through the top fifty Shakespeare characters (based on line load) and create their individual Top 25 power rankings of which roles are the most impressive to play. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast Kevin Condardo c/o No Holds Bard P.O. Box 170004 Brooklyn, NY 11217
NHB 162 - 'Twas A Rough Night
July 18, 2018 05:32 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBThis week we’ll rough it out, seek motivation, and tip our cap to Ian McKellan and his retirement from Shakespeare, as he has promised his current run of King Lear will be his final spin with the Bard (and no one ever goes back on saying they’re retired from one specific type of performance). www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast Kevin Condardo c/o No Holds Bard P.O. Box 170004 Brooklyn, NY 1...
NHB 161 - So You're Going To See THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
July 11, 2018 04:35 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBAre you on the way to see a production of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS? 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
NHB 160 - Give Me My Sin Again
June 28, 2018 03:59 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBThis week we’ll sin, question a sequel, and pat Tom Hanks on the back for riffing on Shakespeare for four minutes, here on hour 125 or so of our original Bard-related BS. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast Kevin Condardo c/o No Holds Bard P.O. Box 170004 Brooklyn, NY 11217
NHB 159 - So You're Going To See HENRY VI PART THREE
June 21, 2018 03:13 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBAre you on the way to see a production of HENRY VI PART THREE? 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
NHB 158 - NHB Predicts Good Tickle Brain's Shakespeare World Cup
June 13, 2018 04:23 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBInspired by Good Tickle Brain's Shakespeare World Cup 2018 (https://goodticklebrain.com/home/2018/6/7/shakespeare-world-cup-2018-the-teams), the boys put on their best sports radio voices and break down the brackets to decide who they think would bring home the Bard's gold. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast Kevin Condardo c/o No Holds Bard P.O. Box 170004 Brooklyn, NY 11217
NHB 157 - The Antoniad Debrief
June 08, 2018 06:22 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBDan and Kevin welcome special and long overdue guest Christine Penney as the three discuss the highs and lows of the Seven Stages Shakespeare Company's Antoniad, a continuous one-day, seven-ish hour presentation of the plays linked in the Antonio fan theory we discussed way back in Episode 21 - Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, and Much Ado About Nothing. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBar...
NHB 156 - Pluck Up, My Heart, And Be Sad
June 01, 2018 06:56 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBThis week we’ll pluck up, explore Juliet’s options, and apologize profusely for our two-weeks absence from your podcast dials. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast Kevin Condardo c/o No Holds Bard P.O. Box 170004 Brooklyn, NY 11217
NHB 155 - Four Motif Clover
June 01, 2018 02:35 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBInspired by a request from Emily Gams, the boys create a chain of motifs linking all 38 plays in the Canon one by one. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast Kevin Condardo c/o No Holds Bard P.O. Box 170004 Brooklyn, NY 11217
NHB 154 - I Like Not Fair Terms And A Villain's Mind
May 17, 2018 03:59 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBThis week we’ll negotiate fair terms, gain from reading, and celebrate our 154th episode by breaking some legitimate Shakespeare news based on recent discoveries from your boys at NHB. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast Kevin Condardo c/o No Holds Bard P.O. Box 170004 Brooklyn, NY 11217
NHB 153 - Best Of The Duel IV (Episodes 49-70)
May 10, 2018 03:59 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBWe keep our monthly Wildcard episode but so-so this week as we take a trip down memory lane to revisit our favorite Duel answers from Episodes 49-70. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 152 - Holy Sh*t It's Ben Crystal
May 03, 2018 03:21 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBFor this month's Wildcard episode we throw ten duel questions at Ben Crystal, co-writer of Shakespeare's Words and The Shakespeare Miscellany, author of Shakespeare on Toast - Getting A Taste for the Bard, explorer of original practices in Shakespeare rehearsal and production, producer, actor, and actual listener of the podcast. You can check out Ben's work at the recently revised ShakespearesWords.com or his personal website at bencrystal.com. www.noholdsbard.com noholdsbardpodcast@gmai...
NHB 151 - Sonnet Exploder (#40)
April 26, 2018 00:20 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBInspired by the hit podcast Song Exploder, Kevin and Dan spend this episode breaking down and analyzing Shakespeare's Sonnet #40. Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; What hast thou then more than thou hadst before? No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call; All mine was thine before thou hadst this more. Then, if for my love thou my love receivest, I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest; But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest By wilful taste of what thys...
NHB 150 - What Madness Rules In Brainsick Men
April 18, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBThis week we’ll be brained madly, explore gateway Shakespeare, and dig in on the text of the eighth Shakespearian Star Wars adaptation, Jedi the Last, which came out this month. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 149 - So You're Going To See HENRY VI PART TWO
April 11, 2018 04:39 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBAre you on the way to see a production of HENRY VI PART TWO? 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
NHB 148 - What Fool Hath Added Water To The Sea
April 05, 2018 03:59 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBThis week we'll add water to the sea, become tragic avengers, and give our reviews of the 113-second video in which Andrew Scott makes it through 12.5 lines of verse that is taking the Shakespeare internet community by storm. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 147 - So You're Going To See HENRY VI PART ONE
March 28, 2018 04:07 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBAre you on the way to see a production of HENRY VI PART ONE? 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
NHB 146 - The Cause Is In My Will
March 22, 2018 03:36 - 1 hour - 55 MBThis week we’ll will our causes, find a common theme, and go after Shakespeare for reports that he himself may have annotated a copy of the 16th century copy of one of the source texts for Hamlet, since we came up with annotating copies of Shakespeare plays first. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 145 - Holy Sh*t It's Madeline Sayet
March 14, 2018 04:59 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBFor this month's Wildcard episode we throw ten duel questions at Madeline Sayet, a recipient of the White House Champion of Change award and a member of the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. You can find Madeline at https://www.madelinesayet.com. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 144 - Much Virtue In If
March 07, 2018 05:03 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBThis week we’ll power our ifs, go gulling, and offer our tutoring services to Tom Hanks in advance of his upcoming Los Angeles theater debut as he takes on Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 143 - Prose and Verses - The Queen Mab Speech
February 28, 2018 06:05 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBFor this month's Wildcard we're trying out a new format - Prose and Verses. In each P&V episode, one of the boys will take a controversial position on a Shakespearian matter and the other will defend what is perceived to be the popular opinion on the issue in a Lincoln-Douglas-inspired long-form debate For this inaugural attempt at Prose and Verses, the case on the docket is "K. Condardo v. The Queen Mab Speech." www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard...
NHB 142 - Hoyday, A Riddle!
February 21, 2018 07:27 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBThis week we’ll riddle you this, melt some solid flesh, and introduce our brand new spinoff podcast about George North, the author from the 1570s that Shakespeare apparently stole up to twenty monologues throughout the canon from as discovered by plagiarism software this week. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 141 - So You're Going To See THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
February 14, 2018 06:39 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBAre you on the way to see a production of THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA? 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
NHB 140 - From Thine Eyes My Knowledge I Derive
February 07, 2018 06:12 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBThis week we’ll derive knowledge, sell a king, and see which of our U.K. listeners will be the first to send us the two pound coin commemorating Shakespeare’s histories put out by the Royal Mint in 2016 and yet still not in either of our possessions. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 139 - Will, Actually: ROMEO AND JULIET
January 31, 2018 05:29 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBDan and Kevin return to everyone's favorite Shakespeare party game, WILL, ACTUALLY, to discuss the most obvious themes in ROMEO AND JULIET. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 138 - The Fantasy Shakespeare Season Draft II
January 24, 2018 07:36 - 1 hour - 96.9 MBFor this month's Wildcard, we are joined by four of our nearest and dearest to draft five institutional Shakespeare theater seasons from the canon - with each play being pulled from everyone else's board once it is selected. We tried this for the first time back in Episode 90 - so here we go for round two! Special thanks to our brave and brilliant guests: Jenn Deon (persistencetheatre.com) Brett Elliott (kingsmenshakespeare.org) Mya Gosling (goodticklebrain.com) Lesley Schisgall Currie...
NHB 137 - There's Small Choice In Rotten Apples
January 18, 2018 04:59 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBThis week, we'll like them apples, explore if there is a second thing to talk about in Midsummer, and await our royalty check from the Silicon Valley Shakespeare Company who just last week put on a 48-hour play festival called ShakesSports, an event with the teaser: "The MacBeths playing hockey? Midsummer Fairies having a hand at a tennis match? King Lear playing quidditch? Our writers will explore what happens when sports gets thrown into a Shakespeare classic." www.noholdsbard.com noh...
NHB 136 - Is't Real That I See
January 10, 2018 06:27 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBThis week we’ll see is’t real, get drummers drumming, and plot how we’re going to squeeze our way into the relationship between Second Sight Spirits and Froghammer Shakespeare, who just collaborated to release a hazelnut liqueur called “Queen Mab” that we don’t understand why we haven’t received a courtesy bottle of yet. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 135 - So You're Going To See CYMBELINE
January 03, 2018 17:00 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBAre you on the way to see a production of CYMBELINE? 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
NHB 134 - For Whom The Bard Tolls '17
December 27, 2017 05:30 - 29 minutes - 27 MBFor this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin cast ten of the most dearly departed of 2017 in their first Shakespearian roles at The Pearly Gate Repertory Theater. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 133 - Folly And Ignorance
December 20, 2017 05:07 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBThis week we’ll folly and be ignorant, identify a symbol, and get real indignant regarding The Guardian’s list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books Of All Time listing The First Folio at #97 overall. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 132 - So You're Going To See HAMLET
December 13, 2017 06:41 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBAre you on the way to see a production of HAMLET? 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
NHB 131 - Rage Must Be Withstood
December 06, 2017 05:21 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBThis week we’ll withstand rage, seek morality in man, and break down in great detail the genealogical analysis that proves American Meghan Markle, Prince Harry’s new fiancée, is Shakespeare’s fifth cousin 13 times removed. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 130 - My False O'erweighs Your True
November 29, 2017 05:08 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBThis week we’ll o’erweigh truth, do some homework homework, and unveil NHB’s official play-at-home game designed to accompany Tina Packer’s upcoming talk on 25 Sex Acts in Shakespeare. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 129 - Shakespeare's Thanksgiving Pot Luck Menu
November 22, 2017 17:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBFor this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin prepare for Thanksgiving by assembling a Shakespeare-inspired holiday pot luck menu. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 128 - So You're Going To See MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
November 15, 2017 05:30 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBAre you on the way to see a production of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING? 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
NHB 127 - Man Is A Giddy Thing
November 08, 2017 07:20 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBThis week we’ll get giddy, see Lear better, and give our unbiased ear to Alexander Waugh’s recent assertation that he can prove that William Shakespeare was actually Edward de Vere based on encryptions in the title and dedication pages of Aspley’s edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets of 1609. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 126 - Best Of The Duel III (Episodes 27-48)
November 01, 2017 04:22 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBWe keep our monthly Wildcard episode but so-so this week as we take a trip down memory lane to revisit our favorite Duel answers from Episodes 27-48. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 125 - How Easy Is A Bush Supposed A Bear
October 25, 2017 06:23 - 41 minutes - 38 MBThis week we’ll confuse flora and fauna, reign in chaos, and contrast Coriolanus, and rate the headline puns written to cover the firing of now-former Leicester City Football Club manager Craig Shakespeare. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 124 - The Shakespeare High Sorting Hat
October 18, 2017 04:05 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBFor this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin take all the characters that have been selected to Shakespeare High to date via The Shakespearian Hockey League (episode 17), Shakespeare League Baseball (episode 42), 177Shx (episode 56), Shakespeare Fantasy Football (episode 64), and the All-Shakespeare Girls Professional Baseball League (episode 94) and sort them into their respective Hogwarts houses. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBa...
NHB 123 - So You're Going To See HENRY IV PART TWO
October 11, 2017 04:25 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBAre you on the way to see a production of HENRY IV PART TWO? 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
NHB 122 - How All Occasions Do Inform Against Me
October 04, 2017 05:24 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBThis week we’ll inform against occasion, contrast Coriolanus, and pop the bubbly on Will’s behalf to celebrate the New York Times’ report that Shakespeare in Love will be the most produced play in the United States during the 2017-2018 theatrical season. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 121 - The Sepia Sessions: THE WINTER'S TALE
September 27, 2017 16:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBFor this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin invite all the #Bardflies to join them at their neighborhood bar as they share a pitcher and discuss the Seven Stages Shakespeare Company's upcoming production of THE WINTER'S TALE that Dan will be directing this fall. (And if this is your first episode - NHB promises there's much less background noise, though not necessarily any more sobriety, in the rest of the catalogue.) www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/...
NHB 120 - How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been From Thee
September 20, 2017 13:21 - 53 minutes - 49 MBThis week we’ll have a season of absence, navigate circumstance in Elsinore, and Kevin will offer an extended and heartfelt apology for all the mean things he’s ever said about England and France after his week on the Continent. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 119 - So You're Going To See HENRY V
September 14, 2017 02:46 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBAre you on the way to see a production of HENRY V? 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
NHB 118 - My Old Brain Is Troubled
September 06, 2017 04:34 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBThis week we’ll trouble our brains, foil Queen Mab, and defend the University of Southern California’s definitely-intentional choice to spell Shakespeare without the final “E” on a statue at the centerpiece of their recent $700 million facility upgrade. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 117 - We Watch WILL
August 31, 2017 01:28 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBFor the second Wildcard episode of the month, Dan and Kevin discuss the pilot episode of TNT's new series WILL, a show that "tells the wild story of young William Shakespeare's arrival onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th century London." www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 116 - Will, Actually: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
August 23, 2017 05:36 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBDan and Kevin return to everyone's favorite Shakespeare party game, WILL, ACTUALLY, to discuss the most obvious themes in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 115 - These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends
August 16, 2017 05:39 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBThis week we’ll delight in violence, catch the Scottish King, and reach out to the director of Torn Out Theater to see why Dan and I weren’t called in to audition for the currently running “nude, all-male, body-positive” outdoor production of HAMLET currently running in Manhattan and Brooklyn. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast