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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?…
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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 …
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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.…
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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…
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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 …
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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 Shakespe…
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On the eighth episode of Pith and Moment, Amelia Fischer joins Kyle Downing to talk about her production of Much Ado About Nothing set in 1840s Texas. They also play a Shakespeare-themed game of Pyramid, discuss the implications of a gender-reversed As You Like It, and wonder about the effects of metonymy and synecdoche in Shakespeare's text.…
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On the 7th episode of Pith and Moment, Kyle Downing and Parke Fech talk Comedy of Errors, and the effects of having four actors playing the four twin roles vs. having two actors each play one set of twins. They also play a game called "O, I am slain", and hypothesize about what Shakespeare's work would be like if he had written in anapestic tetrame…
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On the sixth episode of Pith and Moment, Kyle Downing and Elena Robertson discuss Richard II and all its quirks, including why the whole play is written in verse and why the last act is written entirely in rhyming couplets. Elena also plays a game in which she attempts to guess Shakespeare plays based on the names of their characters.…
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On the fifth episode of Pith and Moment, Kyle Downing talks with Christopher Owens about All's Well That Ends Well. Christopher offers his insight about challenges in casting and directing the play, including the problematic ending. They also play a game of "Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness", in which Christopher attempts to identify Shakespea…
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Kyle and Gillian talk about Shakespeare's kings and what effect humanizing a king might have had on Shakespeare's audience. They also analyze the effects of hyperbaton as a rhetorical device, and wonder what Romeo and Juliet might have been like if the characters had fought with flails. And then there's a rousing game of Famous Last Words.…
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