A lot of London's image never was. There never was a Dickensian London, or a Shakespearean London, or a swinging London.
Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.
In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
Britney Spears was an incredible dancer. That kid was amazing.
I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.
