No Holds Bard

No Holds Bard is an American podcast hosted by Dan Beaulieu and Kevin Condardo, the co-founder/artistic director and managing director of Seven Stages Shakespeare Company in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
== Format ==
=== Word of the Week ===
Before each regular episode, Dan chooses a Word of the Week. This is a Shakespearean word that may be confusing to an average listener. Dan defines the word, gives an example of it in a sentence and then uses it during the episode without Kevin realizing. At the end of the episode, Kevin attempts to guess what the Word of the Week was.
=== Duel ===
The regular episodes include a segment where Dan and Kevin answer three quick questions at the intersection of Shakespeare and the present day. These are usually listener-submitted questions, though they are occasionally submitted by Dan or Kevin. Episodes #34, #60, and #126 are best of compilations of previous Duel questions.
Previous Duel questions have been:
* With the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States, what two characters in the canon would be most excited by this news?Episode #9 - I Am in a Holiday Humor - No Holds Bard (July 1, 2015)
* We are in the age of celebrity branding. Which character would make the best company spokesperson, and what product would they endorse?Episode #16 - Now Step I Forth To Whip Hypocrisy - No Holds Bard (September 22, 2015)
* To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the Royal Mail launched a set of stamps featuring iconic Shakespeare quotes. What quote from the canon is most fitting for a stamp?Episode #44 - Few Love To Hear The Sins They Love To Act - No Holds Bard (April 7, 2016)
For certain questions, a lightning round is triggered wherein Dan and Kevin give as many answers to the question as possible within a single minute (e.g. Shakespearean cocktails).Episode #13 - The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strain'd - No Holds Bard (August 25, 2015)
=== Homework ===
During the regular episodes, Dan and Kevin answer a Shakespearean homework question usually found on Yahoo! Answers or Reddit, or submitted directly to them.
Previous homework questions have been:
* I need to write an 800 word script that fills a gap within the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream. What are some gaps I could write about?Episode #20 - I Like Your Silence, It The More Shows Off Your Wonder - No Holds Bard (October 20, 2015)
* Does Caliban deserve to rule the island at the end of The Tempest?Episode #59 - Dissemble All Your Griefs And Discontents - No Holds Bard (July 19, 2016)
* In Julius Caesar, how is Mark Antony's funeral speech more personal than Brutus' speech?Episode #66 - I Have Drunk And Seen The Spider - No Holds Bard (September 7, 2016)
=== Everyday Shakes ===
The final segment of regular episodes is Everyday Shakes. Dan and Kevin select a Shakespearean quote, or a portion of a quote, and after reading it in context, examine how it can be used in contemporary conversations. The quote they choose is used for the episode's title.
=== So You're Going to See Shakespeare ===
Once a month, in place of a regular episode, they release a "So You're Going to See Shakespeare" feature. During the episode Dan and Kevin give a plot summary of the play, discussing where it falls in Shakespeare's personal timeline and what was happening in the world at that time. The breakdown includes identifying a prominent theme in the play, picking which non-title character they would most like to portray in a production, analyzing a quote from the play, and highlighting the biggest practical challenge for a director (usually a stage direction). 
The current list of already-discussed plays are:
* The Tempest (Episode #15) 
* Macbeth (Episode #19) 
* Pericles (Episode #23)
* The Winter's Tale (Episode #27)
* The Two Noble Kinsmen (Episode #32)
* All's Well That Ends Well (Episode #36)
* A Midsummer Night's Dream (Episode #40)
* Romeo and Juliet (Episode #45)
* The Taming of the Shrew (Episode #49)
* Love's Labour's Lost (Episode #53)
* Troilus and Cressida (Episode #58)
* As You Like It (Episode #62)
* Othello (Episode #67)
* King Lear (Episode #71)
* The Merchant of Venice (Episode #75)
* Twelfth Night (Episode #79)
* Measure for Measure (Episode #84)
* Antony and Cleopatra (Episode #88)
* Julius Caesar (Episode #92)
* Titus Andronicus (Episode #97)
* Coriolanus (Episode #101)
* Richard II (Episode #105)
* Henry IV, Part 1 (Episode #110)
* Richard III (Episode #114)
* Henry V (Episode #119)
* Henry IV, Part 2 (Episode #123)
* Much Ado About Nothing (Episode #128)
* Hamlet (Episode #132)
* Cymbeline (Episode #135)
=== Wildcard ===
On the last week of every month they release a "Wildcard" episode. Originally, the episode just had to "be better than nothing," which was then changed to be "but so so" Episode #55 - The Incomplete Histories Debrief - No Holds Bard (June 22, 2016) (an allusion to Episode #52: "It is but so so"). A common theme among Wildcard episodes is drafting Shakespeare's characters into different fantasy sports within a fictional high school, Shakespeare High. Expanding on that idea, they also cast a fantasy production of 1776 (musical).Episode #56 - 177Shx - No Holds Bard (June 28, 2016) 
== Episodes ==
 
Episode #	Title 	Origin ofEveryday Shakes 	Word of the Week	Episode Intro(What is up you...) 	Original Release Date
1 	No longer available 	- 	- 	- 	-
2 	No longer available 	- 	- 	- 	-
3 	Country Matters 	Hamlet 	Quoth 	Friends 	April 8, 2015
4 	And Thus the Whirligig of Time Brings In His Revenges 	Twelfth Night 	Time 	Subscribers 	April 22, 2015
5 	I Am Angling Now 	The Winter's Tale 	Knave 	- 	May 5, 2015
6 	Sell while you Can, You are Not for All Markets 	As You Like It 	Sans 	Whirligigs 	May 20, 2015
7 	I Leave my Duty a little unthought of and Speak out of my Injury	Twelfth Night 	Wherefore 	Lurkers 	June 5, 2015
8 	Sad Hours Seem Long 	Romeo and Juliet 	Base 	Illyriacs 	June 17, 2015
9 	I Am In A Holiday Humor 	As You Like It 	Bandy 	Funeral Baked Meats 	July 1, 2015
10 	Live Loathed and Long 	Timon of Athens 	'Twas 	Brave Conquerors 	July 14, 2015
11 	Too Full o' th' Milk of Human Kindness 	Macbeth 	'Tis 	Co-mates and Brothers in Exile 	July 29, 2015
12 	I Am Not What I Am 	Othello 	Cuckold 	- 	August 11, 2015
13 	The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strain'd 	The Merchant of Venice 	Yarely 	Hearts 	August 25, 2015
14 	Our Doubts Are Traitors 	Measure for Measure 	But 	Fragments 	September 9, 2015
15 	 	- 	- 	Ministers of Fate 	September 15, 2015
16 	Now Step I Forth To Whip Hypocrisy 	Love's Labour's Lost 	Do't 	Romans 	September 22, 2015
17 	 	- 	- 	Boys of Ice 	September 29, 2015
18 	I Would Eat His Heart In The Marketplace 	Much Ado About Nothing 	Sirrah 	Fishmongers 	October 7, 2015
19 	 	- 	- 	Rump-fed Ronyons 	October 13, 2015
20 	I Like Your Silence, It The More Shows Off Your Wonder 	The Winter's Tale 	Coxcomb 	Wrinkled Elders 	October 20, 2015
21 	 	- 	- 	Rare Parrot-Teachers 	October 28, 2015
22 	We Few, We Happy Few 	Henry V 	'Zounds 	Winter Crickets 	November 3, 2015
23 	 	- 	- 	- 	November 10, 2015
24 	I Will Stand The Hazard Of The Die 	Richard III 	Sans 	Skeins of Thread 	November 24, 2015
25 	 	- 	- 	Walking Shadows 	November 24, 2015
26 	Nothing Will Come Of Nothing 	King Lear 	Afore 	Turlygods 	December 1, 2015
27 	 	- 	- 	Bawcocks 	December 8, 2015
28 	I Wasted Time, And Now Doth Time Waste Me 	Richard II 	Avouch 	Dull Shadows 	December 15, 2015
29 	 	- 	- 	Birds of Dawning 	December 22, 2015
30 	 	- 	- 	Young Squarers 	December 31, 2015
31 	If You Have Tears, Prepare To Shed Them Now 	Julius Caesar 	Ye 	Rotten Oranges 	January 5, 2016
32 	 	- 	- 	Mute Contemplatives 	January 12, 2016
33 	A Plague On Both Your Houses 	Romeo and Juliet 	Cur 	Midwives to my Woe 	January 19, 2016
34 	 	- 	- 	Hazards of the Die 	January 26, 2016
35 	That You Were Once Unkind Befriends Me Now 	Sonnet 120 	Rampallian 	Moon-Calves 	February 2, 2016
36 	 	- 	- 	Dumb Innocents 	February 9, 2016
37 	What A Piece Of Work Is A Man 	Hamlet 	Prithee 	Bed Pressers 	February 17, 2016
38 	 	- 	- 	Heartless Hinds 	February 24, 2016
39 	We Have Scorched The Snake, Not Killed It 	Macbeth 	Kicky-Wicky 	Whoreson Mad Compounds of Magesty 	March 1, 2016
40 	 	- 	- 	Lob of Spirits 	March 8, 2016
41 	Rare Words! Brave World! 	Henry IV, Part 1 	Will 	Wags 	March 15, 2016
42 	 	- 	- 	Players 	March 22, 2016
43 	 	- 	- 	Imperfect Men 	March 29, 2016
44 	Few Love To Hear The Sins They Love To Act 	Pericles 	Aby 	Patch Brains 	April 7, 2016
45 	 	- 	- 	Cunning Cooks 	April 19, 2016
46 	To Thine Own Self Be True 	Hamlet 	In't 	Thorny Hedgehogs 	April 19, 2016
47 	 	- 	- 	Princely Peers 	April 28, 2016
48 	Speak What We Feel, Not What We Ought To Say 	King Lear 	Small ale 	Whoreson Loggerheads 	May 3, 2016
49 	 	- 	- 	Thou Rags, Thou Quantities, Thou Remnants 	May 10, 2016
50 	Home-Keeping Youth Have Ever Homely Wits 	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	But 	Fat Friars 	May 17, 2016
51 	 	- 	- 	Loggerheads 	May 24, 2016
52 	It Is But So So 	As You Like It 	Saucy 	Mistress Minions 	May 31, 2016
53 	 	- 	- 	Brave Conquerors 	June 7, 2016
54 	The Ills We Do, Their Ills Instruct Us So 	Othello 	Nonce 	Shelled Peascods 	June 21, 2016
55 	 	- 	- 	Barefoot Brothers 	June 21, 2016
56 	 	- 	- 	Country Men 	June 28, 2016
57 	Wisely And Slow 	Romeo and Juliet 	Tang 	Tassle-Gentles 	July 5, 2016
58 	 	- 	- 	Galled Geese of Winchester 	July 12, 2016
59 	Dissemble All Your Griefs And Discontents 	Titus Andronicus 	Ay 	Changing Pieces 	July 19, 2016
60 	 	- 	- 	Pampered Jades of Asia 	July 26, 2016
61 	There Is A World Elsewhere 	Coriolanus 	Thou 	Jackanapes 	August 2, 216
62 	 	- 	- 	Country Copulatives 	August 9, 2016
63 	So Foul And Fair A Day I Have Not Seen 	Macbeth 	Dun 	Weird Sisters 	August 16, 2016
64 	 	- 	- 	1936 Draft Pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers 	August 23, 2016
65 	 	- 	- 	Widowed Wombs 	September 1, 2016
66 	I Have Drunk And Seen The Spider 	The Winter's Tale 	Oft 	Sourest-Nature Dogs 	September 7, 2016
67 	 	- 	- 	Barbary Horses 	September 14, 2016
68 	I See You What You Are 	Twelfth Night 	Qua 	General Offences 	September 20, 2016
69 	 	- 	- 	Wretched, Rash, Intruding Fools 	September 28, 2016
70 	Each Substance Of A Grief Hath Twenty Shadows 	Richard II 	Dissemble 	Uncropped Flowers 	October 5, 2016
71 	 	- 	- 	Lily-Livered, Action-Taking, Whoreson, Glass-Gazing, Super-Serviceable Finical Rogues 	October 13, 2016
72 	Pray You Now, Forget and Forgive 	King Lear 	Wawl 	Patrons of My Right 	October 25, 2016
73 	 	- 	- 	Whining Schoolboys 	October 25, 2016
74 	When They Seldom Come, They Wish'd For Come 	Henry IV, Part 1 	Unyoked 	Bear Herds 	November 9, 2016
75 	 	- 	- 	Wise and Upright Judges 	November 22, 2016
76 	Sweet Are The Uses If Adversity 	As You Like It 	Nay 	Scrubbed Boys 	November 23, 2016
77 	 	- 	- 	Noble Hearts 	November 30, 2016
78 	The Readiness Is All 	Hamlet 	Hither 	Brinded Cats 	December 6, 2016
79 	 	- 	- 	Dutchman's Beards 	December 13, 2016
80 	Silence Is The Perfectest Herald Of Joy 	Twelfth Night 	Varletto 	Cursed Cows 	December 21, 2016
81 	 	- 	- 	Bolting-Hutch of Beastlinesses 	December 23, 2016
82 	 	- 	- 	Poor Ghosts 	December 28, 2016
83 	We Must Not Make A Scarecrow Of The Law 	Measure for Measure 	Heart 	Servant Monsters 	January 5, 2017
84 	 	- 	- 	Stewed Prunes 	January 10, 2017
85 	Let The World Slip, We Will Ne'er Be Younger 	The Taming of the Shrew 	Pheeze/Feeze 	Rogues and Peasant Slaves 	January 17, 2017
86 	 	- 	- 	Pint Pots 	January 31, 2017
87 	He Is A Lion That I Am Proud To Hunt 	Coriolanus 	Yare 	Insolent Noisemakers 	January 31, 2017
88 	 	- 	- 	Grizzled Heads 	February 7, 2017
89 	Take Time To Pause 	A Midsummer Night's Dream 	God Ye Good E'en	Three-Inch Fools 	February 14, 2017
90 	 	- 	- 	Scurvy Companions 	February 22, 2017
91 	Men's Eyes Were Made To Look, And Let Them Gaze 	Romeo and Juliet 	Loggerhead 	Loggerheads 	March 1, 2017
92 	 	- 	- 	Idle Creatures 	March 7, 2017
93 	Misery Acquaints A Man With Strange Bedfellows 	The Tempest 	Nonce 	Winter Crickets 	March 14, 2017
94 	 	- 	- 	Painted Maypoles 	March 22, 2017
95 	 	- 	- 	Envious Emulators 	March 29, 2017
96 	They Fool Me To The Top Of My Bent 	Hamlet 	Rogue 	Giving Veins 	April 5, 2017
97 	 	- 	- 	Valiant Sons 	April 12, 2017
98 	What A Sweep Of Vanity Comes This Way 	Timon of Athens 	If 	- 	April 19, 2017
99 	 	- 	I' 	Rotten Oranges 	April 26, 2017
100 	I Banish You 	Coriolanus 	Mark 	Worms of Nile 	May 3, 2017
101 	 	- 	- 	Fragments 	May 10, 2017
102 	I Am Not Yet Well Breathed 	As You Like It 	Holla 	Midnight Hags 	May 17, 2017
103 	 	- 	- 	Magic Kingdoms For A Horse 	May 24, 2017
104 	Now He'll Outstare The Lightning 	Antony and Cleopatra 	Ambuscado 	Valiant Sons 	May 31, 2017
105 	 	- 	- 	Rough Rug-Headed Kerns 	June 7, 2017
106 	Expose Thyself To Feel What Wretches Feel 	King Lear 	Abase 	Dappled Fools 	June 14, 2017
107 	 	- 	- 	Unperfect Actors 	June 21, 2017
108 	 	- 	- 	Great Eaters of Beef 	June 28, 2017
109 	Things Sweet To Taste Prove In Digestion Sour 	Richard II 	Saltpeter 	Dappled Fools 	July 5, 2017
110 	 	- 	- 	Leathern Jerkin, Crystal-Button, Not-Pated, Agate-Ring, Puke-Stocking, Caddis-Garter, Smooth-Tongue, Spanish-Pouches	July 12, 2017
111 	Where Is The Life That Late I led? 	The Taming of the Shrew 	Quatch 	Lewdsters 	July 19, 2017
112 	 	- 	- 	Most Gallant, Illustrate, and Learned Gentlemen and Princesses 	July 26, 2017
113 	Why Should Excuse Be Born Or E'er Begot 	Cymbeline 	Th' 	Prettiest Low-Born Lass 	August 3, 2017
114 	 	- 	- 	Bunch-Backed Toads 	August 9, 2017
115 	These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends 	Romeo and Juliet 	Waspish-headed 	Wafer-Cakes 	August 15, 2017
116 	 	- 	- 	Heavy Plowmen 	August 22, 2017
117 	 	- 	- 	Fair Beseechers 	August 30, 2017
118 	My Old Brain Is Troubled 	The Tempest 	Roynish 	Rabbit-Suckers 	September 5, 2017
119 	 	- 	- 	Yoke-Fellows In Arms 	September 13, 2017
120 	How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been From Thee 	Sonnet 97 	Irk 	Island Carrions 	September 19, 2017
121 	 	- 	- 	Watery Stars 	September 26, 2017
122 	How All Occasions Do Inform Against Me 	Hamlet 	Collier 	Whoreson Upright Rabbit 	October 4, 2017
123 	 	- 	- 	Roads 	October 11, 2017
124 	 	- 	- 	Spirits of Health or Goblins Damned 	October 18, 2017
125 	How Easy Is A Bush Supposed A Bear 	A Midsummer Night's Dream 	Knack 	Excellent Pieces of Witchcraft 	October 24, 2017
126 	 	- 	- 	Hobby Horses 	November 1, 2017
127 	Man Is A Giddy Thing 	Much Ado About Nothing 	Unapt 	Overweening Rogues 	November 8, 2017
128 	 	- 	- 	Ass 	November 15, 2017
129 	 	- 	- 	Huge Hills of Flesh 	November 23, 2017
130 	My False O'erweighs Your True 	Measure for Measure 	O'er 	Gray-Coated Gnats 	November 29, 2017
131 	Rage Must Be Withstood 	Richard II 	Tapster 	Primcoxes 	December 6, 2017
132 	 	- 	- 	Puffed and Reckless Libertines 	December 13, 2017
133 	Folly And Ignorance 	Troilus and Cressida 	Peg-a-ramsey 	Bare Bodkins 	December 20, 2017
134 	 	- 	- 	Dead Coarse 	December 27, 2017
135 	 	- 	- 	Scraps o' the Court 	January 3, 2018
136 	Is't Real That I See 	All's Well That Ends Well 	Galliass 	Galloway Nags 	January 10, 2018
137 	There's Small Choice In Rotten Apples 	The Taming of the Shrew 	Paradox 	Musk-Rose Buds 	January 17, 2018
==Reception==
NPR featured The Shakespearean Hockey League episode on their podcast aggregator, earbud.fm. "Dan Beaulieu and Kevin Condardo, two smart-aleck Bostonian theater guys now living in NYC, love Shakespeare. They also love sports. In this episode, they draft a fantasy hockey league based on Shakespeare — and it's the perfect amount of absurd."
CBC Radio featured the Shakespeare League Baseball episode on their recommended podcast playlist.
==References==
== External links ==
* http://noholdsbard.com
* http://www.7stagesshakespeare.org/no-holds-bard-podcast
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