Reading a Shakespearean play is, to me, much the same as listening to a complete opera: his soliloquies, like an operatic aria, are magnificent and memorable; but I sometimes lose my way in the maze of all the in-between language. Methinks the Bard doth discourse too much.

Still, many of my favorite quotes come from the works of old Will, such as this immortal advice from “Hamlet”:

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

In the dark days in which we are now living, it seems especially important for each of us to take heed of Shakespeare’s words of wisdom — which were offered by the character Polonius to his son Laertes as the young man was leaving to study at university — and to avoid being swayed by those who would lead us down the wrong path.

Advice that is as important — if not more so — for the 21st century as it was for the 17th.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
11/3/25