Pith and Moment: A Podcast for All Things Shakespeare

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Kyle Downing (nyshakesguy) and various guests and co-hosts breakdown Shakespeare's plays, talk poetic elements, examine ridiculous hypotheticals and answer listener questions on this podcast.

  1. 12/02/2016

    Episode 17: Bros Before Prose

    Kyle and Abby talk Shakespeare's deepest platonic same-gender relationships that appear amidst his most passionate love stories. They also play a game called "I Knew Him, Horatio", and discuss Shakespeare monologues and plays that best represent the election results.

    1h 32m
  2. Episode 16: The Fantasy Shakespeare Draft

    05/30/2016

    Episode 16: The Fantasy Shakespeare Draft

    Kyle and Abby host the world's first Fantasy Shakespeare draft, in which they and four friends take turns picking the Shakespeare plays they think will be produced most often in the 2017-2018 regional theatre seasons.

    1h 8m
  3. Episode 15: Pirates and Robots

    05/17/2016

    Episode 15: Pirates and Robots

    On the 15th episode of Pith and Moment, Abby and Kyle talk Deus Ex Machina in Shakespeare, and whether or not the label is useful. They also find out which Shakespeare plays have the most swearing, and discuss a rhetorical device called Pysma. Plus, which Shakespeare plays could benefit from the addition of robots?

    1h 31m
  4. Episode 14: If You Kill a King, You Die

    05/02/2016

    Episode 14: If You Kill a King, You Die

    Kyle Downing and Abby Wilde talk about the theme of fate in Richard III, Macbeth and Julius Caesar, and whether there are any similarities with the prophecies and curses across all three plays. They discuss a rhetorical device called Epizeuxis and an Old West-themed Macbeth. Kyle uses Open Source Shakespeare to find out which young male lovers use romance words most frequently in their speech.

    1h 3m
  5. Episode 13: The Heroine-Ingenue Spectrum

    04/24/2016

    Episode 13: The Heroine-Ingenue Spectrum

    To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Abby Wilde joins Kyle Downing on the podcast to talk about Shakespeare's heroines, and what exactly makes them different from his ingenues. They also discuss Shakespeare's bloodiest works, and play a trivia game based around the 400th line in 10 different Shakespeare plays.

    1h 16m
  6. Episode 12: Play On... Give Me Excess Of It?

    03/21/2016

    Episode 12: Play On... Give Me Excess Of It?

    Kyle and Mike host special guest Martine Kei Green-Rogers, a dramaturg working on Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project. Martine divulges some inside information about the controversial Shakespeare translations, and the three of them discuss the potential effects on the community and general Shakespeare education. Other shenanigans include discussion of an inverted Richard III production where all the other characters have disabilities instead, and an exploration of a rhetorical device called hypophora.

    54 min
  7. Episode 11: Midsummer on Drugs?

    03/09/2016

    Episode 11: Midsummer on Drugs?

    On the 11th episode, Kyle Downing and his graduate school classmate Mike Thatcher talk about A Midsummer Night's Dream and all its episodic elements. They discuss what the play might be like if all the characters were on different drugs, and discuss the significance of Puck's casting to the play. For more nerdy fun, they take a look at which words appear more often in different eras of Shakespeare's career.

    54 min
  8. Episode 10: Solving Two Gents

    10/24/2015

    Episode 10: Solving Two Gents

    On the tenth episode of Pith and Moment, Rebekah Scallet joins Kyle Downing to talk about the issues with the final scene of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, as well as a few other interesting scenes and devices within the play. They also discuss the poetic and rhetorical effects of chiasmus. Rebekah plays a game in which she tries to identify Shakespeare plays based on animal references within them.

    54 min
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Kyle Downing (nyshakesguy) and various guests and co-hosts breakdown Shakespeare's plays, talk poetic elements, examine ridiculous hypotheticals and answer listener questions on this podcast.

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