Soul of the Age, the applause, delight, and wonder of our stage, my Shakespeare rise.

That is one of the many iconic lines from a poem by Dr. Johnson, the great

literary figure of the 17th century. It's a poem called Two the Memory of My Beloved, the author.

Mr. William Shakespeare, which you wrote as part of the preface to a first folio in 1623.

Obviously, if you haven't figured it out already, we are doing another Shakespeare play, which I'm very excited about.

We're going through all of them on young heretics

because everybody should read all of Shakespeare and this is the classical education that

you didn't get in school or maybe aren't currently getting in school.

That you didn't know you'd been denied. And so we have gone through now one history, one comedy, and one

tragedy of Shakespeare. We did Macbeth for our tragedy. We did King John for our history. We were

chronologically in terms of the histories. And then we did twelfth night for our comedy.

And so now we're back around to tragedy and we are doing a big one today. We are doing

Romeo and Juliet. This is like, you know, sometimes on this show I introduce you to things that

not a lot of people have heard of. Sometimes we go down rabbit holes, sometimes we talk about things

that you maybe heard of, it never read, whatever. It is impossible for me to imagine that there are

people out here being like, Romeo and Juliet, I've never heard of that one. Like there could not be a more

famous play. And so I'm going to try and give you a take on it that maybe you won't have heard

before. I'm going to try and tell you about some of the sources that you maybe not don't know about

for this play. Hopefully this will give you a deeper appreciation for why this thing has just

taken over the Western imagination. I mean, there are certain characters, right? Like Tristan and

his older and Don Quixote and Sancio Panza and Romeo and Juliet are among them that just like,

they just live, it's as if they're alive, it's as if they still exist. And one of the troubles with

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