BardCast: The Shakespeare Podcast
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Podcast Description
A podcast that takes a comprehensive approach to Shakespeare and his works. You can visit the website at http://bardcast.blogspot.com
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Cymbeline | Cymbeline is a weird play. It isn't really a tragedy, despite its title. Our next episode is 12th Night. Sorry again for the delay: Jeff and I both finished school recently, so we should be able to get these out faster from here on out. http://archive.org | 5/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Julius Caesar | Sorry about the extreme delay, both Jeff and I are working and going to school now, so we don't have as much time for podcasting and editing as we'd like. Also, I was sick for about a month and a half. The episode is available Here. Hark! A Vagrant has fa | 3/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"Anonymous" | Anonymous has come and gone, so now is probably the best time to release a belated counterpoint podcast To sum up, it's bad writing and bad history. The next episode is Antony and Cleopatra, vote for what you want to see after that! EDIT/CORRECTION: Our n | 1/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Much Ado About Nothing | Much Ado About Nothing is a good play, with many good turns of phrase by Shakespeare. So many, in fact, that I forgot some of my favorites! Is it not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?Benedick, Act II, Scene III (Referring to | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Is Hamlet | Hamlet is a cool play, and a cool guy. We did an episode about the play. Don't worry, this is just an overview, we're going to dig in much deeper with later episodes. Here's a sample from the "Bad Quarto", "Good Quarto", and the First Folio | 9/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ben Jonson | A new month, and a new episode of BardCast! This one is about Ben Jonson, he was a pretty cool guy, if rather stuck-up. Please respond to our newest poll, while you're here! This is one of the better sources of Jonson's works. Things I forgot to mention t | 8/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bonus BardCast: Best/Worst Tragedies | In this episode we name our favorite and least favorite Tragedies, and talk about how the podcast is going. Check out this funny webcomic on King Lear. She also has one on Macbeth. Kurt Vonnegut's rules for writing. If everyone read these, stories would b | 6/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sonnets Introduction | Shakespeare's Sonnets are regarded as some of the finest poetry in the English language. Unfortunately, neither of us are huge fans, so this is a rather irreverent summary of the poems. Oscar Wilde's story about the person known as WH is available HERE. W | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Winter's Tale | It's been a long time, and we're sorry for that, but The Winter's Tale is finally ready for consumption. The Winter's Tale (Modern Library Classics) (See all Shakespeare Literature) | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shakespeare's England | This episode was a labour of labour. We had to record it twice, and it required a lot of research. Please enjoy! The news story about Edward III being attributed to Shakespeare can be found Here. The BardTube YouTube channel is Here. Our next episode is H | 3/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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As You Like It | We're back, and this episode is about As You Like It This episode's music is also from Freesound.org, available here, and performed by hammerklavier. A good quote I forgot to mention: "Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark hou | 1/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Season 2 Premiere | So we're into Season 2. Our next episode is about As You Like It. Our Intro/Outro music is available Here. | 11/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Villains | This month's episode is Villains, and here it is! Trying to figure out some way to continue hosting old episodes, sorry if you accidentally re-downloaded the first episode on iTunes. Our next episode is Henry V. Episode Outline after the break. Shakespear | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona | The Two Gentlemen of Verona isn't going to win any awards, but it's a fun play. We used an entirely new format for this episode, focusing on character instead of doing a scene by scene analysis. Let us know what you think! Next Episode: The First Folio Ep | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The First Folio | The First Folio seems like a dry subject, but it's the only way we could talk about some of the most important documents in Shakespeare's record: the poems at the beginning of the book, and the Droeshout Portrait. Thanks, Wikipedia!Places you can see the | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shakespeare's Sources | Episode 20! Hooray! This one is about Shakespeare's Sources, although that doesn't take us too long, so the second half is about news that's cropped up lately. There's a special moment of action at the end, where we roll a die to randomly decide what play | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Othello | I said we'd have the podcast out by the end of the month, and here it is, with an hour and 45 minutes to go. We'll have a vote about the content of the next episode. Store: Othello With Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh Othello With Laurence Olivier | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Macbeth | Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, and this is our longest episode. We were happy to talk about the Astor Place Riots, you can see more stuff about it on Wikipedia Here. It would be easy for us to provide the outlines that we use to produce t | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Henry V | Henry V has some of the greatest speeches of all time. Here's a youtube clip of one of them. You can listen to our episode about it Here. Our next episode is our season finalè, so please give us some questions or subjects to talk about! The script we use | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Henry IV, Part I | This was a lighthearted episode, appropriate since it introduces the jolly Falstaff to the podcast. Our next episode is going to be about Shakespeare as a fictional character à la the film Shakespeare In Love. If you would like to see the Welles film Chi | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Henry IV, Part II | We kind of rag on Falstaff in this one, but the next episode is exclusively about him, so I hope he doesn't mind too much. PS. (The new host we were trying seems to be broken. I'm working on a solution now.) PPS. (I've re-hosted it. I hope it works this t | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Falstaff | Last time, I said that Falstaff should feel better because we made a whole episode about him. Since we spend most of this episode mocking him, maybe not. Like we say in the episode, if you are a fan, please leave us a comment. We have no idea who you are | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shakespeare In Fiction | It's been a while, but we finally have a new episode. This one's about Shakespeare as a fictional character. Our next episode will be about Henry IV, Part II. Links: Tim Curry As Shakespeare A Youtube video, poor in quality both as a youtube video and as | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Merchant of Venice | The Merchant of Venice is a great play, and we were happy to do an episode about it, at a fan's request. Some good outtakes at the end of this one, too. There's some interesting news about the attribution of Edward III in the Shakespeare canon, but it bro | 10/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 24 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
If music be the food of love...
Well to be fair this isn't really music per se, but that's for lack of a wittier Shakespearean title at the moment. A comprehensive and addictive new podcast - the perfect introduction to Shakespeare complete with plot summaries and film/book recommendations as well as insights on the life of the Bard (who they will convince you WAS actually William Shakespeare) and his plays. Also be sure to check out their blog which includes links to entertain any Shakespeare fan for hours.
Shall I compare thee to other podcasts? Thou art more witty and more interesting.
BardCast is a funny and engrossing podcast centered on Shakespeare, his life, and, of course, his plays. The episodes are interesting and very well thought out. Essential for Shakespeare fans!
As I Did NOT Like It...
Just listened to the AS YOU LIKE IT episode. While I think these guys are well intentioned & have some tid-bits of info that are interesting, I found them to have a profoundly shallow perspective of this play. I cringed when I heard Carson say that Jaques' 7 ages of man speech (which begins with "All the world's a stage") is said for "no apparent reason" & later when Jeff said it "doesn't seem to actually have a lot to do with what's in the play". This illustrates perfectly that these guys, no matter how well intentioned and positive in nature, really don't know what they're talking about. The speech comes, literally & directly, out of Duke Seniors line...
"This wide and universal THEATRE
Presents more woeful PAGEANTS than the SCENE
Where in we PLAY in."
The Duke is reflecting on what they just witnessed: Orlando admitting that he is a gentleman who was only playing the part of a thief; which was what interupted Jaques' begging the Duke to allow him to play the part of a fool. The only research one needs to do in order to know that this is NOT just for "no reason", is to simply read the play.
There are many other moments in this episode I took issue with (namely that there "is never any real threat in this play"; woefully UNTRUE) but I will stick with this... To say this particular speech "doesn't seem to actually have a lot to do with what's in the play" is to admit that they really missed an essential aspect of As You Like It. IDENTITY. In this play there is struggle to define and redefine oneself through and in spite of education, heredity, gender, occupation, class, originality in love, and on and on. Shakespeare even ends the play with an epilogue in which the actor playing Rosalind reveals herself (or himself) to be an actor. Identity is an essential part of As You Like It.
I say if you're looking for educational insight, look elsewhere. Sorry guys, you seem nice enough though.
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