Most likely to rope their brother into recording a ridiculous podcast episode about Shakespeare? That goes to me!

I thought it would be fun to run through a list of the superlatives you find in a high school yearbook and award them to various characters in Shakespeare. You know, best couple, mostly likely to succeed, all that fun stuff. Also, apologies to anyone whose high schools were way too into this. As it turns out, superlatives are mostly really weird!

In this episode, catch me trying to spread the awards around instead of going back to the same five characters, become flabbergasted by some of the choices presented me, and enjoy a lot of background noise from my dog, who decided he wanted to be included.

If there are any superlatives we don't cover in the episode or you'd like to argue I picked the wrong character for one of these, please let me know! Especially would love to hear from the underrepresented plays.

Credit where credit is due

Podcast art by Halie Branson

Music recording by josdvg

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Erscheinungs­datum: 19.2.2026, 13:30:00