How Shakespeare changed my life
 

Interesting video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWzQcW_W0mM
Confession--from 5:37 to the end my mom is speaking.

I added the following from my thanks further down the thread:

BTW, if you are interested, my parents'
memoirs are online here:
My Mom:
http://rocek.knowtheworld.org/Evamemoirs.pdf
My Dad:
http://rocek.knowtheworld.org/memoirs.pdf

Please let me know if you know someone who might like to publish them.

Martin,

I enjoyed that. Your mother's part was, of course, the most remarkable part. Wow.

David R.

What David said. But the whole thing is astonishing. Thanks, Martin.

Thanks for posting this, Martin. Very much enjoyed those seven minutes.

(And you wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Shakespeare! :))

Jayne

Moving and articulate testimonies to W.S's power. I remember James Baldwin's "Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare," published in the London Observer in the 1960's, with his statement that ". . . a poet . . . [a]nd his responsibility, which is also his joy and his strength and his life, is to defeat all labels and complicate all battles . . . ."
Thanks and Regards, wkg

Thanks for this , Martin

That is magnificent, Martin. Give my love to your mother.

Thank you, everyone; and Tim, I will.

Martin

Thank you, Martin.

Wonderful. Many thanks for sharing this with us, Martin.

Chris