Juliet's Answer

Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited

Folger Shakespeare Library

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4.8 • 878 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Starting in the 1930s, people began sending letters asking for advice on love and romance to Verona, Italy—addressed to Juliet. In 2014, a lovelorn Canadian high school teacher traveled to Verona over summer vacation to volunteer as one of “Juliet’s secretaries.” The experience changed his life—and his perspective on Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers. From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. Published February 7, 2017. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. “Any man that can write may answer a letter” was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the Associate Producer. It was editing by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. Esther French is the web producer. We had help from Jeff Muller at Alchemy Studios in Calgary, Alberta and Jake Gorsky and Jeff Peters at the Marketplace Studios in Los Angeles.

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0:00.0	The letters all start the same.
0:02.0	Dear Juliet
0:04.0	Dear Juliet, I am 16 years old and have waited so long to meet my Romeo.
0:10.0	When will he appear?
0:12.0	Dear Juliet, I've been accepted to a college far away, but my boyfriend lives here.
0:19.0	Dear Juliet,
0:22.3	Women don't like me.
0:25.3	I find that I can't lead them to close relationships and then to have sex.
0:27.7	Please tell me what to do.
0:30.2	Dear Juliet, Juliet, a fictional character,
0:35.4	a fake Italian,
0:36.6	created by an Englishman more than 400 years ago,
0:40.3	and yet the letters pour in from all over the world.
0:43.3	Dear Juliet, dear Juliet, what's going on?
0:53.3	From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited.
1:01.0	I'm Michael Whitmore, the Folgers director.
1:04.0	This podcast is called Any Man That Can Write May Answer a Letter.
1:09.0	Starting in the 1930s, people began sending letters asking for advice on love and romance
1:14.6	to Verona, Italy. The letters were addressed to Juliet, and for years no one knew what to do with them.
1:21.6	In 1972, a man named Giulio Tommasia began hosting dinners for a group of his friends.
1:29.3	They started calling themselves the Juliet Club.
1:32.3	And 17 years later, as the letters continued pouring in,
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