OUCH! It Isn’t Juliet Who Is Giving Romeo The Hots

by Reg Green

Shakespeare is back in the parks, he and his players coping bravely with record temperatures, smoke from forest fires and the perennial difficulty of understanding what he’s talking about. Even so, he may not be officially classified as immortal yet. Eng. Lit. teachers all over the US are still reporting what Richard Armour, the iconic iconoclast, noted fifty years ago: that their students cheer up instantly when told the next of his plays they will be studying is “All’s Well That Ends.”