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Hosted by Dave Cohen · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 25 episodes
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Stuck in a rut? Scared of change? Stressed about the world? Anxious for yourself and your loved ones? Know what, more than 400 years ago everyone felt the same way only without the comfort of light bulbs, central heating and sticky toffee pudding. William Shakespeare wrote about it all - and offered many answers to all kinds of modern questions such as what can we do to conquer our fears, how do we find true love and what does it mean to be human? He also asked: to be or not to be? We're still working on that one. My name's Dave Cohen - comedian, author and Horrible Histories lyric writer turned Shakespeare fanboy and I'm here to tell you that there are only two ways to deal with life's problems - the hard way or the Bard way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dave Cohen hosts The Shakespeare Mindset: Improve your life the Bard way not the hard way, a society show with 25 episodes published.
"To unpathed waters, undreamed shores." Every story has a beginning a middle and an end. This chestnut is so ingrained into our psyche and from such an early age that we might wonder if it’s included with eyes, legs, arm
"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!" Or as King Lear might have said to you at the time if you'd been standing nex
"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans." In the second part of this conversation with my former Sitcom Geeks co-host James Cary (
"That tragedy from which she rescues him gratuitously for the sake of their mutual welfare." Once upon a time there was a bad man who ruled the kingdom, and the people were unhappy. Just when everything seemed lost a kni
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."... "They laugh that win" In this episode I talk to my former Sitcom Geeks co-host James Cary. James is one of the most successful audience si
"I understand a fury in your words, / But not the words." Why is there so much rage in the world? Since I started making this podcast I have forced myself back to social media, in case you’re wondering why I reached that
"Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast." Today’s episode is all about sleep.
"Men must endure their going hence, even as their coming hither." In this episode I suggest if you could define Shakespeare in one word that word might possibly be – stoic. I think the philosophy comes closest to what gu
"My love is thine to teach; teach it but how" Top podcaster Tim McIntosh, host of The Play's The Thing, talks about how we can all learn to love Shakespeare, especially after bad experiences at school. We both admit we i
"Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service..." Shakespeare understood the irrational nature of love centuries before modern neuroscience explained it. Using examples from Romeo
"And live a coward in thine own self-esteem". Today we're looking at bullying through the lens of Shakespeare’s plays, which show how bullies often attack a person’s self-worth rather than simply exerting power. Shakespe
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." I'm still quite new to this Shakespeare business, but the more I read and see the more I find out about who I truly am. Imagine a world full of self-aware people. Go
"Can one desire too much of a good thing?" Shakespeare asks in As You Like It, and in this episode I explore how to navigate this complex emotional state with Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford Univer
"The croaking raven doth bellow for revenge." Why can't we humans just get over ourselves? How can we deal with revenge the bard way? In this episode I look at that dish best served cold, or not at all. Revenge is a prim
"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man." It's okay to be bored, Shakespeare shows us how to live without our phones - not yet, you have to listen to the episode first. Hosted on Aca
"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings." Only one thing is certain about this world - uncertainty. True 425 years ago. True now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break." There's no right or wrong way to deal with grief, but as the man says if we want to move forward we need to acknowledg
"This England never did nor never shall Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself." As a teenager in the 1970s battling racism I'd always thought of Shakespeare as the embodiment of
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" Today we look at the fuss around who wrote Shakespeare and how his works can help us uncover the truth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info
"Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown." If you want to be a leader at work or in your community, beware the pitfalls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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