There have only been two geniuses in the world Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

Her gaze wavered towards one of the books on the sales counter beside the register$$$ a hardcover copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet with many of the pages dog-eared and stained with coffee and tea. The store owner caught her looking at it and slid it across the counter towards her. "You ever read Hamlet?" he questioned.<br>"I tried to when I was in high school$$$" said Mandy$$$ picking up the book and flipping it over to read the back.

The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way$$$ then the often narrow thread of text above a sediment of footnotes$$$ something Dr Leavis so deplored$$$ can prove debilitating. Poems$$$ especially the classics of our language$$$ should be read headlong. Dubieties may be looked up later.

Shakespeare was so ahead of his time that people still don't talk that way.

Shakespeare's ambiguous lubricity in Venus is less disturbing than the bleakly moral emphasis of Lucrece$$$ where virtue is so low-spirited$$$ its exclamation so lachrymose and its justification the nasty realpolitik of Roman Republicanism. The sun has not dried the dew on the grass in Venus$$$ but the ill-lit world of Livy's Rome darkens Lucrece. The first poem lives out of doors; the second is in a permanent chiaroscuro.

If you want more people to come to the theatre$$$ don't put the prices at 50. You have to make theatre inclusive$$$ and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

Don't try it$$$ he said. The mutant was reading my mind. "You$$$ boy$$$ you're a literary trainspotter..."

I shall say absolutely nothing about the spindle tree.

If writing did not exist$$$ what terrible depressions we should suffer from.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.