“How I became The Shakespeare Lady”
I am so lucky to have always loved reading, and I do mean love! Books have always been a really big part of my life… books of fiction, biography, travel and geography, mystery, history, psychology, art, and all kinds of people. There are the beautiful & ugly, the happy & tragic, the honest & deceitful, the kind & the cruel, the powerful & the weak and every human condition. Some of my earliest memories are my mother reading to me, and she passed on her own love of reading, a love fostered by my grandmother. Yes, I was surrounded by books and book lovers.
Why Shakespeare?
However, I can’t say that I have always loved Shakespeare! It’s true! I, like you probably, spent years figuring that I wouldn’t EVER understand the plays so… why bother! Well, luckily, I had a few great teachers along the way that helped me develop a love of these beautiful plays. Shakespeare’s writing has it all! They are so deep and insightful they can have a transformative effect in the lives of people of every age and stage of their lives. Realizing this fact is what sent me on a mission!
Why “The Shakespeare Lady”?
Making a difference in the life experiences of people makes a difference in my own life. Being a teacher at heart it is very fulfilling to light the fire of curiosity in people of all ages. Sometimes you don’t know who you might touch.
In 2018, at a homeschool conference, a few of my young teen fans were overheard saying “There’s the Shakespeare lady! Let’s wait and talk to her.”
Your Shakespeare Lady was crowned!
“And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
This was Lawrence Bridges’ first major documentary film, made in 2003 for the National Endowment for the Arts. Actors Tom Hanks, Martin Sheen, William Shatner, Christina Applegate, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael York, Julie Taymor, and Bill Pullman along with school children and lovers of Shakespeare give testimony to the power and importance of Shakespeare.
