When I need my ‘Shakespeare Fix’ I head for American Players Theater, about 45 minutes from my farm. Simply superb and just a magical setting.
‘Julius Caesar’ this season! *SQUEAL*
Broadway-Quality theater in the Wisconsin Woods. ‘Macbeth’ is my favorite, though I love them all. Everything from Shakespeare to modern productions.
https://americanplayers.org/experience
The Reduced Shakespeare Company is enough.
You’re in good company.
“Some of Shakespeare’s plays I have never read; while others I have gone over perhaps as frequently as any unprofessional reader. Among the latter are Lear, Richard Third, Henry Eighth, Hamlet, and especially Macbeth. I think nothing equals Macbeth. It is wonderful.”
Abraham Lincoln, 1863
In an 1860 biography of candidate Lincoln, journalist William Dean Howells wrote that Mr. Lincoln was “a diligent student of Shakespeare, to know whom is a liberal education.”
There’s no denying this. Historian William E. Gienapp: “Lincoln’s gift for language was marvelous, even poetic, so much so that he is the only American president other than Thomas Jefferson whose writings can be considered literature.”
Not bad for a man who had about a year of formal education.
RWhen those BBC productions from the 1970s became available in the Grand Rapids library, I checked out four (that was the max then) titles which I'd never seen performed, including "Measure for Measure" and "Timon of Athens" (frankly, I had no recollection of the name of that one; I don't think there are any well-known quotes from that one). The full set of 37 plays was something like two grand back then, a completely ridiculous figure; a few years later five of the comedies, five of the history plays, and five of the tragedies, were sold in separate box sets for around $100 each (I saw them at Sam's and didn't bite).