"Any Man That Can Write May Answer a Letter"

Alternative title: Juliet’s Answer
Synopsis: Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Starting in the 1930s, people began sending letters asking for advice on love and romance to Verona, Italy. The letters were all addressed to Juliet and for years, no one knew what to do with them. In 1972, a man named Giulio Tamassia began hosting dinners for a group of his friends. They started calling themselves "The Juliet Club," and Verona eventually began sending all the letters their way. Giulio has retired, but the letters keep coming and today his daughter runs a team of volunteers who continue to offer advice. In 2014, a Canadian high school teacher -Glenn Dixon - whose love life was itself kind of a mess - decided to take some time over summer vacation to go to Verona and work as one of "Juliet’s secretaries," as the volunteers are called. Dixon, whose memoir Juliet’s Answer was published in 2017 by Simon and Schuster, is interviewed by Barbara Bogaev.
Series: Shakespeare Unlimited
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Audio
Recording date: 7 Feb 2017
Duration: 32 mins

Notes: Podcast: http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited-episode-66 (accessed 02/2017).
Textual information: Transcript available for download.

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