A tedious & brief Shakespeare podcast
by Danielle Cohn and Charlotte Ahlin
Last name: Bastard. First name: The. Move over, Jon Snow – it's time to talk about one of English lit's most underappreciated illegitimate sons. Plus, we take a detour to talk about the Aristocats, and reiterate that this is NOT an anti-Catholic podcast.
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Welcome back to the freshly Normanized England of King John! We go through the play's major characters and debate what type of animated Robin Hood animal they would be. (Except King John, who is OBVIOUSLY a pathetic little cuck lion without a mane and therefore needs no debate.)
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Hang a calfskin on your recreant limbs, because it's time to discuss KING JOHN! Talking points include neptocide, the Magna Carta, and Disney's foxy Robin Hood.
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It's double, double podcast and trouble! In this year's Spooktacular, we discuss spooky Shakespearian Halloween costumes, rank the Bard's ghosts on a tier list, and build our ideal Shakespeare-themed haunted house.
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Journey with us to the halcyon days of ye olde 2021 as we watch Joel Coen's THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH! Talking points include German expressionism, Ross's snatched waist, and what inflation has done to the price of witches.
TW: This episode contains discussions of suicide, pregnancy loss and child murder.
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If there's three things we know about movies, it's that Viggo actually breaks his toe when he kicks the helmet in The Two Towers, the rain in Singin' In the Rain is actually milk, and The Lion King is actually based on Hamlet. Well, kind of. Are you ready to learn all about it? Oh, c'mon, don't make us say it... BE PREPARED!
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This week: the thrilling conclusion to our unprecedented FOUR-part series on A Midsummer Night’s Dream! We round out the cast of our dream high school play with the fairies. Plus: do YOU know what a changeling is?
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We continue our grim work of casting a high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, this time with the best group of characters: the rude mechanicals! Plus, we play a new game.
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