shakespeare unbard: examining shakespeare one play at a time
joel fishbanea podcast in which joel fishbane explores each of Shakespeare's plays, offering tidbits, trivia, and revisionist interpretations of all those plays they made you read in school.
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 39 | Founded | 10 years ago |
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| Category | Arts | ||||
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There's a pleasing symmetry to the fact that the Bard opened his career with "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" and closed it , so far as we know, with "The Two Noble Kinsmen". In this last episode of "Shakespeare Unbard", Joel discusses Shakespeare'... more
Just as King Lear isn't about King Lear and Julius Caesar isn't about Julius Caesar, Henry VIII isn't about Henry VIII. Its central figures are Wolsey and Katharine, each of whom emerge as the protagonists in what amounts to an uneven historical epic... more
Beloved among Shakespeare fans, The Tempest holds a regal place in the canon, mostly because of the popular belief that Prospero is a stand-in for the Bard himself. In Episode 36, Joel discusses the last play Shakespeare wrote by himself.
Mixing history, comedy, and tragedy, Cymbeline is a grab-bag, the equivalent of a Shakespearian mix-tape. There's no way around it: Cymbeline is Shakespeare's craziest play, a wild theatrical experiment that mashes so many different genres, plots, an... more
"A sad tale's best for winter" asserts Mamillius, the doomed prince of Bohemia, and rarely has a Shakespearian character summarized his own story so well. His words are proved true as we watch The Winter's Tale, a bittersweet bit of theatre that is o... more
There's no record of Coriolanus being performed before 1682, and even after that, the play remained unpopular. It's only recently that the play has finally appeared to be achieving some of the recognition it deserves. In this episode, Joel discusses ... more
Most likely written with a collaborator, Pericles: Prince of Tyre is a dramatic hodegepodge, a mash-up of myth and fairy tales that has the distinction of being one of the few complete dramatic failures in the canon. In this episode, Joel examines th... more
Endlessly bewildering, Antony and Cleopatra is, much like Cleopatra herself, a thing of "infinite variety". It leaps around in genre, as if Shakespeare couldn't quite make up his mind. In this episode of Shakespeare Unbard, Joel takes a look at this ... more
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- I thank God for Joel Fishbane!
Seriously, I have always wondered what is so great about Shakespeare, and Joel has made such swift work of every play that I have actually enjoyed seeing I have been correct all along. Every play is flawed and plodding, ridiculous, cynical, and valuable mainly in showing what audiences wanted in Shakespeare’s time.
It is my
Opinion that the King James translation of the Bible, created at the same time Shakespeare was writing, has done much to make familiar Shakespeare’s wonderful poetics.
Apple Podcasts5Kim Smith
United States2 years ago - It was a good overview
I didn’t always agree but it made me think.
Apple Podcasts5SAT readerUnited States6 years ago - Very annoying sound effects
Very annoying sound effects
Apple Podcasts1SctffUnited States7 years ago - The Bard unbound
A fun and engaging look at the work of William Shakespeare. For both the devout fan and the casual fan.
Apple Podcasts5Jay D'Ici
Canada9 years ago
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