I dug up my son’s book collection for Leon Garfield’s Shakespeare Stories. Listening to my son’s adventures at his camp, looking over his manuscript of the play, and then seeing the children perform in a park on a lovely afternoon in July….well, the love for the poetic language and exaggerated, messy situations that seem to work themselves out somehow in the end came crashing back to me. My son participated in a Shakespeare summer camp where the children worked on a modified version of the Tempest that involved the stories of COVID-19 and Hurricane Hazel (that occurred here in Toronto in 1954) as well as Shakespeare’s original tale about Prospero the magician exiled on an island by his evil brother Antonio. For the past few months I have been obsessed with William Shakespeare and his work.
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