15 May 2020 | St. Isidore the Farmer | Roseburg, Ore.

The academic year, that is! With final exams and papers safely behind me, I’m looking ahead to the summer and what lies beyond. In this episode: my summer plans (as much as any of us can predict them these days!), some final thoughts on “The Rape of Lucrece,” takeaways from Shakespeare’s first eighty sonnets, and preliminary comments on Othello, as well as what we can learn from the humble, miraculous life of a medieval Spanish farmer.

Opening music: “Cantate Domino canticum novum,” composed by Claudio Monteverdi, performed by the Cambridge Singers, dir. John Rutter, London, 2009. All rights reserved.