Episode Guide

"Hamlet to Hamilton" on Anchor.FM

Season One: Writing Verse Drama

Introduction & Overview

• S1 E1: Defining Verse Drama
  
• S1 E2: Content Dictates Form
• S1 E3: Schwumpf, There It Is
• S1 E4: Heresy!

Tool Boudoir

• S1 E5: So You Think You Know Scansion?
  
• S1 E6: Whose Line (Ending) Is It Anyway?
• S1 E7: What's My Line (Ending)?
• S1 E8: First Folio and Emotive Formatting
• S1 E9: The Rules of Emotive Formatting
• S1 E10: Silences, Spacing, Stage Directions and Shared Lines

Season Two: Arthur Through the Ages

Timeline of Arthurian Verse Drama

1500-1700

• S2 E1: The Earliest King Arthur: Thomas Hughes' The Misfortunes of Arthur (1587)
• S2 E2: Verse Drama Meets Opera: John Dryden's The British Worthy (1691)
• S2 E3: Burlesque and Verse Drama: Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb the Great (1730)
  

1800-1900

• S2 E4: Defenestrating Lancelot!  (1843-1868)
• S2 E5: Empowering Guinevere (1885-1891)
• S2 E6: More Hovey, More Honey (1898)
• S2 E7: Melodrama! (1895)
• S2 E8: Gilbert and Sullivan Do King Arthur...Kinda (1895)
• S2 E9: King Arthur and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Play (1906)
  

2000-Present

• S2 E10: New Arthur, New Millennia: The Death of King Arthur by Matthew Freeman (2001)
• S2 E11: A Philosophical King Arthur by Lucy Nordberg (2009)
• S2 E12: The First Folio in the 21st Century: Daniel James Roth's The Tragedy of King Arthur (2019)
• S2 E13: Stage Violence and Verse: The Table Round and The Siege Perilous by Emily C. A. Snyder (2019)
  

Round Tables

• ROUND TABLE of the Round Table: Lucy Nordberg, Daniel James Roth and Emily C. A. Snyder
• ROUND TABLE: Daniel James Roth, Grace Bardsley and Benedetto Robinson

Timeline of Arthurian Verse Drama

Season Special Guest:
Nick Ritacco
as Lancelot

Nick Ritacco Official Site

Season Three: Soliloquy

Definitions

• S3 E1: So You Think You Know Soliloquies?
• S3 E2: Re-Defining Verse Drama, Pt. 1 - Four Types of Verse

• S3 E7: Re-Defining Verse Drama, Pt. 2 - Verse, Paragraph and Bullet Formatting
  

Shakespeare's Soliloquies

• S3 E3: Deep Dive: Exploring Hamlet's Seven Soliloquies
• S3 E4: Deep Dive: Exploring Macbeth's Soliloquies
• S3 E5: The Villain Soliloquies: Richard III, Iago, Edmund, Don John and...Petruchio?
• S3 E6: "Madness" in Soliloquy: Re-Examining King Lear, Lady Macbeth and Ophelia


• S3 E8: The Meta-Theatrical Soliloquy: Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost and Hamlet's "Mousetrap"
  

• S3 E15: Discovering Character Through Line Breaks - Part 3
  

Additional Resources

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Additional Resources

Bonus Episodes & Interviews

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Interviews

• INTERVIEW: Tim Carroll
  
• INTERVIEW: Peter Oswald
• INTERVIEW: Glyn Maxwell
• INTERVIEW: Kasia Lech
• INTERVIEW: Caeden Musser
• INTERVIEW: Deb Victoroff

Round Tables

• ROUND TABLE of the Round Table: Lucy Nordberg, Daniel James Roth and Emily C. A. Snyder
• ROUND TABLE: Daniel James Roth, Grace Bardsley and Benedetto Robinson

Bar(d) Talk

• OCTOBER 2020: Colin & Emily
  
• NOVEMBER 2020: Colin & Emily
  

Unhinged Rants

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Unhinged Rants 2022

• UNHINGED RANT: The plays of T. S. Eliot
• UNHINGED RANT: Laughing at Lord Byron
• UNHINGED RANT: The Very Bad Quarto
• UNHINGED RANT: James Bond and the Bard: Daniel Craig as Macbeth
• UNHINGED RANT: Why AS YOU LIKE IT is Awesome...and Frustrating
• UNHINGED RANT: Walking out of the RSC'S RIII

UPCOMING: Ophelia Was A Handbag (August 2022)

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