Don’t Read Shakespeare Alone: The Romeo and Juliet Edition

This podcast offers a full reading of Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet along with commentary to help listeners understand and appreciate the text.

Episodes

Act V Scene 3

Feb 19, 2025

Feb 19, 2025

42 min

The story ends in tragedy at the Capulet's monument. Romeo and Juliet's families reconcile, finally ending the feud. 
 
Content Warning: suicide

Act V Scene 2

Feb 12, 2025

Feb 12, 2025

7 min

Friar Lawrence learns the alarming news that Romeo never got his letter because Friar John was quarantined in a plague house.
 

Act V Scene 1

Feb 5, 2025

Feb 5, 2025

13 min

Romeo hears from his servant that Juliet has died. Believing that to be true, he goes to an apothecary to buy poison.
Content Warning: planning suicide 

Act IV Scene 5

Jan 30, 2025

Jan 30, 2025

20 min

The Nurse and Juliet's parents think she's dead and are extremely grieved. Friar Lawrence urges them to stop crying, because he's trying to get Juliet's (still living) body to the crypt as soon as possible. Peter has an amusing squabble with the musicians.
 

Act IV Scene 4

Jan 22, 2025

Jan 22, 2025

6 min

Juliet's parents are in a great mood as they stay up all night getting ready for the wedding. Paris and the musicians arrive. 

Act IV Scene 3

Jan 15, 2025

Jan 15, 2025

9 min

Juliet takes the potion that Friar Lawrence gave her, but before she drinks it she imagines all of the horrible things that could go wrong. 
 
Content Warning: contemplation of suicide and disturbing images. 

Act IV Scene 2

Jan 8, 2025

Jan 8, 2025

7 min

Juliet pretends to be willing to marry Paris, and her father excitedly changes the date of the wedding to the next day.

Act IV Scene 1

Jan 1, 2025

Jan 1, 2025

15 min

Juliet goes to Friar Lawrence for help, and runs into Paris at Friar Lawrence's cell. She and Friar Lawrence talk secretly about what can be done, and he gives her a potion that will cause her to appear dead for forty-two hours. 
 
Content Warning: contemplation of suicide. 

Act III Scene 5

Dec 26, 2024

Dec 26, 2024

30 min

Romeo and Juliet say goodbye to each other. Juliet's mother comes to tell her that she is expected to marry Paris, and Juliet refuses. Her father is enraged by her response, and after the Nurse tells her she should marry Paris, Juliet decides her only source of help is Friar Lawrence. 
Content Warnings: verbal abuse, potential physical abuse, and contemplation of suicide.

Act III Scene 4

Dec 19, 2024

Dec 19, 2024

6 min

Lord Capulet offers Paris Juliet's hand in marriage without getting her consent first. He tells Lady Capulet to go and tell Juliet the news right away. 

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