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Podcast The Shakespeare Mindset: Improve your life the Bard way not the hard way

The Shakespeare Mindset: Improve your life the Bard way not the hard way

Dave Cohen

Society & Culture
Education
Comedy

Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 21

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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.

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The Shakespeare Mindset

lundi 2 février 2026 • Duration 01:35

Welcome to The Shakespeare Mindset, where modern day problems are solved by the world's greatest ever writer.

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If Only I Had Time To Listen To This Podcast

Episode 2

mardi 17 février 2026 • Duration 25:15

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."


Why are we so obsessed with time? And why do we think we have so little of it? Shakespeare has an answer or two.



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What Are You Afraid Of?

Episode 1

mardi 10 février 2026 • Duration 24:29

"Our doubts are traitors, And makes us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt."

What's holding you back in life? Shakespeare knows, and I'm here to tell you how to fix it.

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Take Control of Your Life

Episode 4

mardi 3 mars 2026 • Duration 26:25

"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast." You've assassinated the supreme leader. Now what? Today I'm looking at Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and why if you're going to be bold you need to consider the consequences ahead of acting.

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The Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition

Episode 3

mardi 24 février 2026 • Duration 38:23

"Dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream." This week Dave talks to the writer Stefan Stern about how to get on in the world without resorting to murder most foul.

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Meet The New Boss

Episode 5

mardi 10 mars 2026 • Duration 23:54

"Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown." If you want to be a leader at work or in your community, beware the pitfalls.

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My Country Right And Wrong

Episode 7

mardi 24 mars 2026 • Duration 42:18

"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 English nationalism. In this delightful episode Michael Dobson, head of the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon, explains why I couldn't have been more wrong.

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Why Do You Think Your Thoughts Are Facts?

Episode 6

mardi 17 mars 2026 • Duration 24:54

"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.

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How To Deal With Bullies

Episode 14

mardi 12 mai 2026 • Duration 25:51

"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. Shakespeare, writing in the dangerous and politically volatile world of Elizabethan London, understood bullying both as personal cruelty and institutional oppression. Fellow playwrights such as Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd suffered persecution, torture, and even death, demonstrating how fear and intimidation shaped the creative world Shakespeare inhabited.


Examples of bullying in Shakespeare include Prince Hal who in Henry IV Part 1 uses mockery and humiliation to dominate others, especially Falstaff, while Feste in Twelfth Night encourages collective ridicule against Malvolio. Shakespeare’s most sinister bully, however, is Iago from Othello, whose manipulation, racism, jealousy, and gaslighting destroy lives. Even Hamlet is presented as a more complex form of bully, inflicting emotional cruelty on Ophelia while consumed by his own grief.


Bullies are often driven by insecurity, resentment, or feelings of inadequacy. Shakespeare’s genius lies in portraying them not as monsters, but as damaged and vulnerable people whose actions still cause immense harm. Quiet honesty and forgiveness may sometimes be more powerful than dramatic revenge.

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The Joy of Texts

Episode 13

mardi 5 mai 2026 • Duration 26:50

"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 on, dig deeper with me, you'll thank me for it.

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