Insatiate Countess 101

So there’s this Countess, and she’s horny AF…and thus begins John Marston’s The Insatiate Countess. We dish a little happy with some signal boosts in our Happy Hour segment; we tell you everything we know about John Marston and the other writers who had a hand in this text in our Meet the Contemporary feature; our Taste of Text is extra tasty because the titular Countess is, in fact, thirsty like whoa; we give you yet another title to ponder while Keeping Up With the Queen’s Men; we gossip a bit and GTFO. Watch out for that Countess’ “dark hole” is all we’re saying.

Here’s what we recommended in this week’s Happy Hour feature:

• All My Relations podcast

• Ijeoma Oluo’s new book: MEDIOCRE

• They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

• @soyouwanttotalkabout on Instagram

Here’s what we featured in our ShakesBubble Gossip segments:

• Red Bull Theatre’s live reading of A King and No King on Dec. 14, 2020

• Listen to some brilliant teens stage their favorite scenes from Shakespeare as radio plays on the Dr. Ralph Presents podcast

The Malcontent 101

Welcome to the mysterious misadventures of Marston's Malcontent! This week we feature Shakespeare's contemporary, John Marston, and his befuddling masterpiece, The Malcontent. We won't even mention this week's Rhetorical Device (paralepsis); we tell you everything you might ever want to know (and some things you may not want to know) about Marston in our Meet the Contemporary segment; we summarize this convoluted play and then unpack it as best we can in our Tips and Tidbits; we deliver the latest hot ShakesBubble Gossip; and, of course, we introduce new contenders and eliminate a few previous ones in our on-going #DickBracket competition.