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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Episodes
NHB 114 - So You're Going To See RICHARD III
August 09, 2017 05:02 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBAre you on the way to see a production of RICHARD III? 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 113 - Why Should Excuse Be Born Or E'er Begot
August 03, 2017 03:30 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBThis week we’ll bear excuse, try the Merchant of Venice, and unveil our plans for a new Shakespearian-style history play titled “The Most Lametable Comedy And Most Cruel Firing Of Anthony Scaramucci.” This week's episode features a reading by Alice Langby. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 112 - Figuring Out Meter
July 26, 2017 06:05 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBIn response to Abigail Pore's tweet... "#EnglishMajorProbs Trying to figure out meter with your Shakespeare bff @LydiaHuth Hey, @NoHoldsBardCast how about a wildcard episode?" ...your Shakespeare BFFs Dan and Kevin take a crack at iambic pentameter for your listening and learning pleasure. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 111 - Where Is The Life That Late I Led?
July 19, 2017 16:00 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBThis week we’ll reflect on our late life, bring childlike wonder to Illyria, and take inspiration from the RSC’s plan to monitor the heart rates of audience members at their upcoming production of Titus Andronicus by hooking each other up to lie detectors and asking each other questions we’ve kept under wraps for fifteen years. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 110 - So You're Going To See HENRY IV PART ONE
July 13, 2017 02:06 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBAre you on the way to see a production of HENRY IV 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 109 - Things Sweet To Taste Prove In Digestion Sour
July 05, 2017 16:00 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBThis week we'll sour on digestion, assess jealousy, and get in line for the Shake-speare Shake that Shake Shack will be offering at their Upper West Side location during the upcoming Shakespeare in the Park production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.
NHB 108 - The Shakespeare Diner
June 29, 2017 03:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBFor this week's Wildcard episode, we staff The Shakespeare Diner. (We strongly recommend enjoying this episode on a full stomach.)
NHB 107 - Sonnet Exploder (#23)
June 22, 2017 01:58 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBInspired 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 loo...
NHB 106 - Expose Thyself To Feel What Wretches Feel
June 14, 2017 16:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBThis 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?).
NHB 105 - So You're Going To See RICHARD II
June 08, 2017 03:08 - 31 minutes - 29 MBAre 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
NHB 104 - Now He'll Outstare The Lightning
May 31, 2017 16:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBThis 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
NHB 103 - ShakespeareLand
May 25, 2017 02:01 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBFor 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. www.noholdsbard.com [email protected] patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast
NHB 102 - I Am Not Yet Well Breathed
May 17, 2017 06:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBThis 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 Graace: 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
NHB 101 - So You're Going To See CORIOLANUS
May 10, 2017 05:03 - 32 minutes - 30 MBAre 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
NHB 100 - I Banish You
May 03, 2017 06:11 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBThis 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
NHB 099 - NHB LIVE! Shakespeare's Birthday '17
April 26, 2017 04:12 - 35 minutes - 33.6 MBFor 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.
NHB 098 - What A Sweep Of Vanity Comes This Way
April 19, 2017 06:57 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBThis 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
NHB 097 - So You're Going To See TITUS ANDRONICUS
April 13, 2017 03:47 - 34 minutes - 32.5 MBAre 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
NHB 096 - They Fool Me To The Top Of My Bent
April 05, 2017 04:44 - 40 minutes - 38 MBThis 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
NHB 095 - "If Shakespeare Was Alive Today, He'd Be Writing Wrestling Shows"
March 29, 2017 05:23 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBWith 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.
NHB 094 - All-Shakespeare Girls Professional Baseball League
March 22, 2017 06:23 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBAfter 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).
NHB 093 - Misery Acquaints A Man With Strange Bedfellows
March 15, 2017 05:15 - 50 minutes - 46.8 MBThis 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
NHB 092 - So You're Going To See JULIUS CAESAR
March 08, 2017 07:01 - 32 minutes - 30.3 MBAre 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
NHB 091 - Men's Eyes Were Made To Look, And Let Them Gaze
March 02, 2017 07:06 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBThis 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.
NHB 090 - The 2017 Fantasy Shakespeare Season Draft
February 22, 2017 08:20 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBFor 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
NHB 089 - Take Time To Pause
February 15, 2017 06:31 - 42 minutes - 39.7 MBThis 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
NHB 088 - So You're Going To See ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
February 08, 2017 05:52 - 31 minutes - 29.4 MBAre 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
NHB 087 - He Is A Lion That I Am Proud To Hunt
February 01, 2017 07:54 - 42 minutes - 39.6 MBThis 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
NHB 086 - Holy Sh*t It's Mya Gosling
February 01, 2017 06:08 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBFor 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.
NHB 085 - Let The World Slip, We Will Ne'er Be Younger
January 18, 2017 07:30 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBThis 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
NHB 084 - So You're Going To See MEASURE FOR MEASURE
January 11, 2017 05:29 - 30 minutes - 28.6 MBAre 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
NHB 083 - We Must Not Make A Scarecrow Of The Law
January 06, 2017 03:23 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBThis 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.
NHB 082 - For Whom The Bard Tolls '16
December 28, 2016 08:59 - 42 minutes - 39.9 MBFor 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.
NHB 081 - The Grinch That Stole A Christmas From The Who's
December 24, 2016 06:50 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MBIn 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
NHB 080 - Silence Is The Perfectest Herald Of Joy
December 21, 2016 09:23 - 34 minutes - 32.5 MBThis 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."
NHB 079 - So You're Going To See TWELFTH NIGHT
December 14, 2016 05:40 - 33 minutes - 31.4 MBAre 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
NHB 078 - The Readiness Is All
December 07, 2016 05:13 - 36 minutes - 34 MBThis 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
NHB 077 - Shakespeare Santa
November 30, 2016 07:43 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBIn 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
NHB 076 - Sweet Are The Uses Of Adversity
November 24, 2016 05:14 - 33 minutes - 31.7 MBThis 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.
NHB 075 - So You're Going To See THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
November 23, 2016 06:55 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBAre 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.
NHB 074 - When They Seldom Come, They Wish'd For Come
November 09, 2016 18:11 - 31 minutes - 29.9 MBThis week we'll be wish'd for, see who is willing to be had, and extend an invite to Emma Rice to swing by to Duel with us during her newly-discovered free time.
NHB 073 - Interview with the Director of BEING SHAKESPEARE
October 26, 2016 06:55 - 17 minutes - 16.8 MBFor 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.
NHB 072 - Pray You Now, Forget And Forgive
October 26, 2016 05:46 - 37 minutes - 34.9 MBThis week we’ll forget and forgive, review Richard’s motivations, and connect with Christopher Marlowe’s agent to see how he negotiated co-author billing for his client this week on the upcoming Oxford University Press editions of the Henry VI plays.
NHB 071 - So You're Going To See KING LEAR
October 14, 2016 04:48 - 35 minutes - 33.2 MBAre 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.
NHB 070 - Each Substance Of A Grief Hath Twenty Shadows
October 05, 2016 04:45 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBThis week we'll cast grief shadows, examine a royal entourage, and speculate on what exactly will go down in the upcoming issue of the comic DEADPOOL where the title character "goes Shakespeare," whatever that means.
NHB 069 - Will, Actually: HAMLET
September 28, 2016 04:01 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBDan 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.
NHB 068 - I See You What You Are
September 21, 2016 04:16 - 45 minutes - 42.3 MBIn this episode we'll see you what you are, turn on the green light, and dig into the new research reported on LiveScience.com this week that shows monkeys with brain implants are able to type out sections of Hamlet.
NHB 067 - So You're Going To See OTHELLO
September 15, 2016 03:25 - 34 minutes - 32.5 MBAre 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.
NHB 066 - I Have Drunk And Seen The Spider
September 07, 2016 13:19 - 39 minutes - 37 MBThis week we'll see spiders, compare eulogies, and play Shakespeare Charades with Tom Hiddleston on Twitter using the hashtag #charadespeare.
NHB 065 - Sonnet Exploder (#97)
September 01, 2016 20:03 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MBInspired 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 abund...