S8E6 Romeo and Juliet Part 2

The truth behind my podcast voice, why its been quiet lately, and what keeps this podcast going. The book I quote is Parenting by Paul David Tripp. 

Season 13 Episode 7: featuring "All Creatures of Our God and King/ Canticle of the Sun", Matthew 6:25-34, "Hurt No Living Thing" by Christina Rossetti, "The Chimney-Swift's Home" from the Dooryard Stories by Clara Dillingham Pierson, "The Swallow" by Christina Rossetti, and Psalm ... Show More

Featuring Psalm 139, Stories from "Among the Night People" by Clara Dillingham Pierson, "Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 in E flat major" by Chopin, "The Land of Nod" by Robert Louis Stevenson, a prayer from St. Francis of Assisi, and the Doxology. 

Claire and I swoon over our favorite bits of Romeo and Juliet, and discuss why this play is not a cautionary tale of unbridled passion and the excesses of youth, but rather a hymn to the redemptive powers of love itself. 

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Shakespeare's famous tragedy, written in the early 1590s after a series of histories and comedies. His audience already knew the story of the feuding Capulets and Montagues in Verona and the fate of the young lovers from their rival houses, ... Show More

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Shakespeare's famous tragedy, written in the early 1590s after a series of histories and comedies. His audience already knew the story of the feuding Capulets and Montagues in Verona and the fate of the young lovers from their rival houses, ... Show More

<p>The "love theme" from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture is one of the most famous themes in the history of Western Classical Music.  The story it accompanies might be the most famous Western play ever written.   Just like Eine Kleine Nachtmusik seems to define th ... Show More

The Juliet Club is in Verona, Italy, a place known throughout the world as being the city of love. The club has been replying to mail addressed to Shakespeare’s tragic heroine, Juliet since the early 1990s. The story of the Juliet letters started in the 1930s when the guardian of ... Show More

Sophie Duncan delves into the playwright’s world-famous tragedy to reveal what it tells us about youth in the Tudor era The doomed romance of young lovers Romeo and Juliet has captured imaginations across the centuries – but what does William Shakespeare’s play tell us about the ... Show More

In the series conclusion, John and Stasi discuss the importance of learning to love.