Homage to Shakespeare ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Homage to Shakespeare ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The first spark of genuine engagement with great writers most often comes from a teacher, and the ever-fresh immortality of the great work has its ironic contrast in the aging and death of those who made the introduction. So it is for me with Shakespeare, who was first truly impressed upon my imagination during my freshman year of college.[1] I must have read several Shakespeare plays in high school—Romeo and Juliet, definitely. (Franco Zeffirel…