Well, friends, this episode marks the last for the pod. We give you a short list of things we love about Shakespeare and about making this podcast together, we play a few games, and we say our goodbyes. With lots of bird-walking and rabbit holes along the way because when we promise Vintage Whamlet, we deliver. Thank you for making the last 6 years so fantastic. Whamlet OUT!
10 Things We Hate About Shakespeare
This week, for our penultimate episode, we decided to get some sh*t off our chests and make a list of 10 things we hate about Shakespeare. That’s it. No other segments. Oh and we list our bottom 5 plays in the canon, too. But don’t worry, as the saying goes, hatred isn’t the opposite of love, it’s indifference. We bitch because we love.
Kim F. Hall-apalooza!
This episode represents a departure from the norm, but hopefully the beginning of a thread of episodes to feature one major scholar and their contributions to the field of Shakespeare studies. Who better to start with than Dr. Kim F. Hall? Dr. Hall’s prolific body of work has impacted the field (and many other fields of study) in so many ways that we just had to devote an entire episode to her. We also deliver expected features such as Happy Hour and ShakesBubble Gossip, so stick around for those as well. We hope we pique your interest in Dr. Hall’s work and find ways to incorporate it into your own!
Here’s what we recommended in this week’s Happy Hour feature:
Maintenance Phase podcast with Aubrey Gordon (aka Your Fat Friend) and Michael Hobbes (aka co-host of You’re Wrong About)
Jess says treat yo’self to a hot water bottle
Here’s what we featured in our ShakesBubble Gossip segments:
Baltimore Shakespeare Factory bids farewell to their artistic director, Tom Delise (Facebook announcement on 1.5.21)
NYT article eulogizing the lost work of our friends over at Brave Spirits Theatre
A Queen's Men Romp!
This episode is a little different from the norm - come with us as we explore the wild world of early modern playing companies! What were they? Why were they? Who were they? And other W words as well. Our look at the Queen’s Men (aka the all-star troupe of actors commanded by Her Majesty) will set us up for the rest of the season, throughout which we will closely examine some of the big headliner titles from the Queen’s Men’s repertory and ask you to VOTE on which one we should feature as a 101 episode at the end of this season. We introduce a new game - The Lost Plays Game! - and also take a few short trips down tangential creeks into the origins of the vacuum cleaner and a memorially reconstructed version of “The Documentary” Shakespeare in Love. It’s a romp. A Queen’s Men romp.
Here’s what we recommended** in this week’s Happy Hour feature:
Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
American Royals by Katherine McGee
Kim F Hall’s 2016 Shakespeare Birth lecture
**The links for the above books are NOT affiliate links, but we did take care to send you to non-Am@z0n booksellers #supportindiebookstores #citescholarsofcolor
Here’s what we featured in our Game/ShakesBubble Gossip segments:
The Public’s Richard II radio play now available in a 4-part podcast
The Donmar Trilogy which will be streaming for free all of October 2020
Special Edition - SAA 2019 Debrief
In this episode we debrief on the highlights of our SAA experience. We talk about our favorite papers and presentations, our digital exhibition, all the famous and fabulously dressed scholars we met, and much more. We’re energized with new ideas and scholarship and ready to share it with you!