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My parents are big Shakespeare fans.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.