"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
William Shakespeare
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I studied Shakespeare for 10 years and taught it for 5 and secretly believe the meaning of life is threaded through the magical words of his plays and poems. There is everything in his corpus of work. The blood and gore of the beastly Titus Andronicus, the historical drama of Richard II, the ghoulish terror of Macbeth, the expansive power of love in Antony and Cleopatra, the wit and folly of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the terrifying agony of the dissolving sanity of King Lear. Believing the messages of life can be found in
“This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow as night follows the day, thou canst not then be false to any....” William Shakespeare