Me and Shakespeare

Me and ShakespeareBy: Herman Gollob On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the drama and the acting, he discovers an insatiable passion for all things Shakespeare. He reads broadly and deeply about the plays, discusses them with some of the great actors, directors, and teachers of our time, and soon finds himself

Once upon a time Jack sent this tweet

and revenge is as timeless as interfamily conflict and as immediate as today's news

Short sections cover philosophy

engaging words (“An astronaut’s job is to travel into space”) and cheerful

and a gnawing question: why had their mother abandoned them

and the predictable rhythm of repeated lines will encourage them to read along

and they barely made it back to ground that morning

especially when he’s made to be “It” for a game of hide-and-seek

she is put on probation at work and must attend mandatory counselling

appropriate for children just beginning to read on their own

cute romance story following the lives of four high school students navigating young love

As Laura edges closer to her employer