I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.
It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.
To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.
It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.
There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.
At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage.
With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience.
The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.