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Dr. J's Shakespeare

by Fireside Poems

Each episode Dr. J reads a dramatic passage from one of Shakespeare’s plays and discusses how it and the play its from equip us for life’s challenges as well as giving us the pleasures of art.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 22: The General Challenger

    The match between Orlando and Charles the Wrestler considered as a metaphor for the confrontation between every individual human being and the world.

  2. Episode 21: Hector & Achilles

    Shakespeare portrays the combat between Hector and Achilles differently that it's portrayed in Homer's Iliad. Shakespeare is cynical about Achilles, cynical about Hector, and cynical about the Trojan War. There is no heroism and no dignity.

  3. Episode 20:What a King is This!

    Hamlet relates to his friend Horatio how he sent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths.

  4. Episode 19: A Pound of Flesh

    The Merchant of Venice weighs justice and mercy in the balance, but does it also betray Shakespeare as antisemitic?

  5. Episode 18: Kill Claudio

    A woman asks her lover to kill his best friend.

  6. Episode 17: Not Alone Unhappy

    Society depends on human sympathy, including sympathy for those who are unhappy, who can also find companionship in literature and art.

  7. Episode 16: Love-In-Idleness

    The flower Love-In-Idlesess, and particularly its juice dropped on a sleeper's eye, is the source of all erotic love and woe.

  8. Episode 15: We Are Two Lions

    Julius Caesar waivers over whether to visit the Senateon the Ides of March.

  9. Episode 14: Cakes and Ale

    The disapproval of moralists cannot suppres the fun of others.

  10. Episode 13: A Comedy? Really?

    Shakespeare seems to bungle a play.

  11. Episode 12: Reason Not The Need

    Human dignity requires more than our purely physical needs

  12. Episode 11: We Stand Up Peerless

    In Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra we find two worlds: Egypt and Rome. Egypt stands for life and Rome the denial of life. The tragedy is the triumph of Rome and the denial of life overe Egypt and the affirmation of life.

  13. Episode 10: Things Dying and Things Newborn

    Ann infnt girl is rescued from the fate her jealous father inends for her.

  14. Episode 09: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    A giant green knight intrudes on the yuletide festivity of King Arthur and his Round Table.

  15. Episode 08: Love’s Not Love

    The masculine toxicity of Shakespeare's Othelloo isn't Shkespeare's, but Othello's; similarly the racism in Othello isn't Sakespeare's, but Iago's.

  16. Episode 07: Two Holy Palmers

    The artifice of art and the reality of love

  17. Episode 06: Falstaff and Prince Hal

    What is the cost of growing up? All the world?

  18. Episode 05: The Weird Sisters

    Do we choose our fates? Are our fates somehow determined? Are we just the victims or beneficiaries of the world's whims?

  19. Episode 04: Helena

    Is the irrational, feeling mind dominant over our rational mind?

  20. Episode 03: Let’s Kill All the Lawyers

    A demagogue stirs up a violent revolt by appealing to the mob's resentments.

  21. Episode 02: Servants Good and Bad

    In this life, we all are servants. But whom or what do we serve? And what kind of servant are we?

  22. Episode 01: Rosalind and Jacques

    The essential conflict in Shakespeare and in life: withdrawal from life/engagment with life

  23. Launch Announcement

    Announcingtwo new podcasts: Dr. J's Shakespeare and Dr. J's American Passages

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Each episode Dr. J reads a dramatic passage from one of Shakespeare’s plays and discusses how it and the play its from equip us for life’s challenges as well as giving us the pleasures of art.

HOSTED BY

Fireside Poems

Produced by Dr. J

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Each episode Dr. J reads a dramatic passage from one of Shakespeare’s plays and discusses how it and the play its from equip us for life’s challenges as well as giving us the pleasures of art.

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