Each episode Dr. J reads a dramatic passage from one of Shakespeare’s plays and discusses how it and the play its from equip us for life’s challenges as well as giving us the pleasures of art.

Is the irrational, feeling mind dominant over our rational mind?

Episode 04: Helena

A demagogue stirs up a violent revolt by appealing to the mob's resentments.

Episode 03: Let’s Kill All the Lawyers

In this life, we all are servants.  But whom or what do we serve?  And what kind of servant are we?

Episode 02: Servants Good and Bad

The essential conflict in Shakespeare and in life: withdrawal from life/engagment with life

Episode 01: Rosalind and Jacques

Announcingtwo new podcasts: Dr. J's Shakespeare and Dr. J's American Passages