Shakespeare for Self-Knowledge
"To be or not to be: that is the question"
It's an intense, gratifying process that makes us grow, makes us better people and is liberating.
Thought is power but even greater power is speech, who doesn't have power in Shakespeare's plays doesn't speak, but as people, not characters, speaking Shakespeare is great power.
Shakespeare creates "people", he gives them life and all that comes with it: fight for (or conflict with) power, love, insecurities, doubts, image, mask, ego, internal and external conflicts... In my opinion, it's impossible to say Shakespeare writes about only one theme, unless you simply say: Shakespeare writes about the human condition.
Shakespeare makes us believe in the appearances to show the reality.
Shakespeare holds the human condition responsible, with compassion, exposes it but doesn't blame it.
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players."
Come find out more about you and the meaning of "To be or not to be", by acting Shakespeare.
(No acting experience required)
by Francisca Duarte
