Writer and contributor Lauren Emily Whalen returns to the podcast to discuss her new novel, Take Her Down, a YA re-telling of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar! To commemorate it's release, she agreed to discuss two of our generation's most beloved Shakespeare adaptations; Romeo + Juliet and 10 Things I Hate About You. Questions or comments about what we ... Show More
Jun 2025
712 Shakespeare's Greatest Love (with David Medina) | New Play About Shakespeare's Collaboration with Marlowe
He might be the greatest writer about love that the world has ever known. But as is so often the case with Shakespeare, the biographical record raises as many questions as it answers. How often did Shakespeare fall in love, and with whom, and what happened? Who was Shakespeare's ... Show More
56m 46s
Jan 2025
671 Shakespeare's Tragic Art (with Rhodri Lewis) | My Last Book with Joel Warner
It is a truth universally acknowledged that tragedy is one of the world's highest art forms, and that Shakespeare was one of the form's greatest practitioners. But how did he do it? What models did he have to draw upon, and where did he innovate? In this episode, Jacke talks to S ... Show More
56m 6s
Jun 2022
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: tragedy In Verona, two powerful families - the Montagues and the Capulets - are locked in a bitter feud that has spilled into the streets. Against this backdrop of public violence and private pride, Romeo Montague, a passi ... Show More
3h 21m
Aug 2018
The Pleasure and Promise of the Sci-Fi Romance
Among the scant books in my tiny rented room in San Francisco, I’ve kept a spine-worn copy of Romeo and Juliet. It’s the one I read in my high school English class, the pages yellowed, the margins filled with scribbled notes. Since the play was written in the 1590s, Shakespeare’s ... Show More
7m 56s
Feb 2024
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
<p><em>“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar.”</em></p><p>On this episode, Dr. Junius Johnson and Fr. Wesley Walker sit ... Show More
1h 17m