Shakespeare and Pals: Recapping the Bard

• 042 Ancient Step-Mums in Trouble: Jean Racine's Phedre (1677)

  Phedre's been bit by the love-bug, and it's gonna get a lot of people killed. Athenian Prince Hippolyte thinks the worst thing is for his step-mum Phedre to hate him... Oh, no, no... His step-mum L-O-V-E-S him. She knows it's wrong, but her husband is probably dead, and her maid is an enabler. What could possibly go wrong? We've done the greatest French comedy, Moliere's Tartuffe. Now we're doing the greatest French tragedy -- Jean Racine's Phedre! Does it deserve the hype? Join us to find out! Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be sent to [email protected]

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• 041 Cross-Dressing in the Great Outdoors! As You Like It (1599)

  Boy loves girl. Boy gets banished, then girl gets banished, so boy and girl run to the forest where girl's father is also banished. And girl pretends to be boy to flirt with boy. That old chestnut... Shakespeare loves his cross-dressing heroines, and here we have one of his most famous -- Rosalind. We also get the first of Shakespeare's wise fools.   But is "As You Like It" as we like it? Join Michael and Sophie to find out! Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be sent to [email protected] Sources:  The Oxford Shakespeare: As You Like It (Oxford University Press) Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, edited by Brian Vickers (Routledge)

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• 040 3 Years On! A Restrospective on the Podcast

  This time the Shakespeare-thing is... Us! Three years on, we've decided to take a look back at the podcast. How our opinions of Shakespeare have changed, our hot takes, our cold takes, and what is the weirdest Shakespeare thing we've done is? Join us for our three-year retrospective! Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be sent to [email protected]  

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• 039 You're in a cult, dad! Molière's Le Tartuffe (1664)

  The big question: Are the French funny? It wasn't just England that had Renaissance theatre. France had a crack at it, too, and their big-dog of classical comedy was Molière. Orgon's wife and children hate Tartuffe, a mooching, puritanical, hypocritical conman. Unfortunately, Orgon thinks Tartuffe is a saint. Can Orgon family, with the help of a feisty maid, catch Tartuffe red-handed? Has Molière's comedy survived the centuries? Join Michael and Sophie to find out! Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be sent to [email protected] Sources: Molière, Le Tartuffe (Folio classique) Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite (trans. Curtis Hidden Page), Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2027

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• 038 The Ides of March: Julius Caesar (1599)

  The one where Brutus gets radicalised by anonymous commenters Conspiracy, assassination, sky-rending omens. Julius Caesar is dictator-for-life, and some people think this might be bad for democracy. But is it right to kill him? And then the second half of the play is about a war that no one remembers. Does Julius Caesar deserve its place among Shakespeare's A-list? Join Michael and Sophie to find out! Make sure to subscribe and share this podcast! Comments and questions can be sent to [email protected] Sources:  The Oxford Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (Oxford University Press)  

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