This week's episode of The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") with Isaiah 53:1-5 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Revenge and Wrath
In this week’s episode, Shylock’s soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 1, of The Merchant of Venice is followed by verses from Paul’s letter to the Romans (Romans 12:19-21) in the King James Version of the Bible.
Music, Time, and Wisdom
In this week’s episode of The Bard and the Bible Podcast, we conclude RIchard II's soliloquy from Act 5, Scene 5 of Richard II and pair it with Ephesians 5:15-21 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Eased With Being Nothing
This week, The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs the first part of a sad solioquy by Richard II ("I have been studying") with Philippians 4:9-12 in the King James Version of the Bible.
The Right Mind
This week's episode of The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs the boasts of the mysterious Glendower with the Apostle Paul's admonitions to humility in the pattern of Jesus Christ from Philippians 2:5-11 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Glory and Grace
This week's episode of The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Shakespeare's Sonnet 91 ("Some glory in their birth") with 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Dreams and Mysteries
This week, The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Prospero's famous soliloquy from The Tempest ("Our revels now are ended") with a passage from one of Paul's letters to the early church at Corinth (1 Corinthians 15:51-58) in the King James Version of the Bible.
More Fair
This week's episode of The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") with Isaiah 35:1-10 in the King James Version of the Bible.
A Piece of Work
In this week's episode of The Bard and the Bible Podcast we pair Hamlet's famous soliloquy (one of many) in Shakespeare's Hamlet ("What a piece of work is man") with Psalm 8:4-9 in the King James Version of the Bible.
High Fantastical
This week's episode of The Bard and the Bible Podcast does something we haven't done before. We pair the same Shakespeare passage we featured last week--Orsino's famous monologue in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night--but pair it with a different portion of the King James Version of the Bible: 1 John 4:7-12.
O Spirit of Love
In this week's episode of The Bard and the Bible Podcast we pair Orsino's famous monologue in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with Song of Solomon 3:1-4 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Dangerous Words
This week The Bard and the Bible Podcast features a short monologue by Tamora, queen of the Goths, in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and pairs it with James 3:3-8 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Arise, Fair Sun
This week The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Romeo's lines in the famous balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet with similar sentiments by "the lover" in Song of Solomon 2:10-13 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Love and Charity
This week The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116 with the Bible's "Love Chapter," 1 Corinthians 13 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Little or Much
This week's episode of The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs a short monologue by Petruchio from Act 5 of The Taming of the Shrew with Ecclesiastes 5:10-12 in the King James Version of the Bible.
The Revolution of the Times
This week The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs the words of King Henry IV from Act 3, Scene 1, of 2 Henry IV with a short passage from Daniel 2:20-22 in the King James Version of the Bible.
The Powers That Be
This week's The Bard and the Bible Podcast resumes Richard II's speech from Act 3 Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Richard II and pairs it with Romans 13:1-7 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Darkness and Light
This week The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Richard II's words to his "Discomfortable cousin" from Act 3 Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Richard II with John 3:17-21 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Past the Wit of Man to Say
This week The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Bottom's monologue about his "rare vision" from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the passage he mangles: 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 in the King James Version of the Bible.
So Hallow'd and So Gracious
This week The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs the watchman Marcellus's lines from the opening scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet with the Gospel of Luke's nativity account in Luke 2:1-7 of the King James Version of the Bible.