This week's episode of The Bard and the Bible Podcast features the "Upon the King" monologue from Shakespeare's Henry V and 1 Timothy 2:1-4 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Foolishness and Vanity
This week, The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Gratiano's words from Act 1 Scene 1 of The Merchant of Venice with Psalm 94:8-12 from the King James Version of the Bible.
Lesser Grace
This week's episode on The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Helena's lament in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Song of Solomon 1:6-8 from the King James Version of the Bible.
I Confess Your Royal Graces
This week The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Cardinal Wolsey's speech in his own defense from Henry VIII with Psalm 100 in the King James Version of the Bible.
In the Day of Death
This week The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Mark Antony's famous funeral oration from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar with Ecclesiastes 8:8-10 in the King James Version of the Bible.
For Restful Death I Cry
This week, The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Shakespeare's Sonnet 66 with 1 Kings 19:1-9 from the King James Version of the Bible.
Cupids and Camels
This week The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Berowne's "I, forsooth in love!" soliloquy from Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost with a Bible passage relating Isaac and Rebekah's love story from Genesis 24:62-67 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Heinous Deeds
This episode of The Bard and the Bible Podcast pairs Lady Anne's soliloquy from Richard III with a series of "woes" pronounced by the prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 5:20-30 from the King James Version of the Bible.
Beautiful for Situation
This week The Bard and the Bible Podcast reprises John of Gaunt's famous "scepter'd isle" speech from Shakespeare's Richard II and a strikingly similar passage from Psalm 48:1-14 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Roses and Thorns, Wheat and Tares
This week The Bard and the Bible Podcast offers a reprise of Shakespeare's Sonnet 35 ("No more be grieved") and Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Futility and Mortality
This week's episode is a reprise of Macbeth's famous soliloquy ("Tomorrow and tomorrow") and words attributed to King Solomon from Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 in the King James Version of the Bible.
Villain of the Earth, Chief of Sinners
Enobarbus's lament ("I am alone the villain of the earth") from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra meets Paul's "Chief of Sinners" passage from 1 Timothy 1:12-17 in the King James Version of the Bible.
The Bard and the Bible Podcast: To Die, To Sleep
This week's episode is a reprise of Hamlet's famous third soliloquy ("To Be or Not to Be") paired with Paul of Tarsus's words from 2 Corinthians 5:1-9.
The Bard and the Bible Podcast: Wooing Women
Olivia's lovelorn speech about Viola (whom she knows as Cesario) from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ("O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful") is followed by the Shunamite woman's words in Song of Solomon 1:5-7 ("I am black, but comely") in the King James Version of the Bible.
The Bard and the Bible Podcast: Good Name
Iago's short speech from Shakespeare's Othello ("Good name in man and woman") is paired with two verses: Proverbs 22:1 and Ecclesiastes 7:1 in the King James Version of the Bible.
The Bard and the Bible Podcast: Unto the Breach
Henry V's stirring "Once more unto the breach" soliloquy from Shakespeare's Henry V meets a short passage from Ezekiel 22:30-31 in the King James Version of the Bible.
The Bard and the Bible Podcast: Full Fathom Five
Ariel's song from Shakespeare's The Tempest ("Full fathom five thy father lies") meets David's dirge for King Saul and Jonathan in 2 Samuel 1:19-27 in the King James Version of the Bible.
The Bard and the Bible Podcast: With Vilest Worms to Dwell
Shakespeare's Sonnet 71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead") is paired with Job 19:23-27 in the King James Version of the Bible.
The Bard and the Bible Podcast: Go to the Ant
The fool's soliloquy from Shakespeare's King Lear ("We'll set thee to school to an ant") meet a passage from Proverbs 6:6-11 in the King James Version of the Bible.
The Bard and the Bible Podcast: To Be Free
This week's podcast pairs Prospero's soliloquy from Shakespeare's The Tempest ("Now my charms are all o'erthrown") with the words of John 8:31-36 in the King James Version of the Bible.