The Bard and the Bible Podcast - Bob Hostetler

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.  

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The famous "Too too solid flesh" soliloquy of Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 2) are paired with Job's lament in Job 7:16-21 in the King James Version of the Bible.

Puck's closing soliloquy from Act 5 of A Midsummer Night's Dream is paired with Paul's appeal to Philemon for the escaped slave Onesimus in the King James Version of the Bible.

The words of Caliban from Shakespeare's The Tempest ("Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises") meet the words of Psalm 98:4-9 in the King James Version of the Bible.   

The words of the exiled duke in As You Like It (Act 2, Scene 1) are paired with a song by the exiled David (Psalm 3) in the King James Version of the Bible.  

Shakespeare's Sonnet 35 ("No more be grieved") is paired with the words of Jesus (Matthew 18:15-22) from the King James Version of the Bible.

A dirge by Guiderius and Arviragus in Cymbeline is paired with the Apostle Paul's "swan song" from 2 Timothy 4:6-8 in the King James Version of the Bible.

A speech of Ulysses from Troilus and Cressida is followed by Psalm 11, from the King James Version of the Bible.

Constance's grieving words upon the loss of her son, Arthur, in King John are paired with a passage from 2 Samuel 18:31-33 in the King James Version of the Bible.

Shakespeare's Sonnet 60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore") meets Job's words in Job 7:6-11 in the King James Version of the Bible.

The words of Richard III before the battle at Bosworth Field are paired with Psalm 61 in the King James Version of the Bible.

Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes") is paired with Paul's words to the first-century church at Rome from Romans 8:33-39 in the King James Version of the Bible.