Bard or bust: a fanatic's vow; how a young writer saw all of Shakespeare before the age of 30. (First Person).
American Theatre, September, 2002 by Grode, Eric
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Shortly before boarding an early-morning flight from Newark to Seattle to see Titus Andronicus last April, I stopped dead in my tracks. Why on earth was I traveling 2,300 miles to see one of William Shakespeare's worst plays? I decided Ian McKellen was as much to blame as anyone.
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By the time I had finished my sophomore year at Syracuse University, back in August 1992, I had studied Shakespeare in some depth but had seen only two productions, neither of them spectacular. I decided that I needed to see some top-caliber Shakespeare, which to my then-Anglophile mind meant seeing ...
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