The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
Shakespeare and Co dedicates itself to a shared, heady and outdated ideal that is scarce in our protective and fearful age.
I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.
It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.
It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make.
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.