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“Why is he yelling Shakespeare?” asked my 19-year-old daughter, passing by as I watched a clip of a famous actor performing one of the Bard’s tragedies on Broadway.
She didn’t learn that kind of directorial criticism from a college class: She got it from a childhood spent watching Shakespearean films (always with subtitles and plenty of pause-button stoppages by dad), and from seeing a few dozen Shakespeare plays in various venues over the years.
Scott Salvato is a Catholic campus minister in higher education and adjunct professor of history and theology.
