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To Be, or Not to Be, I There's the Point
We asked Penczak what drew him to this piece of work. “The opportunity to counter scholars and critics,” he said, “who dismiss, or worse, snicker at it in comparison to [the Second Quarto, First Folio], and so on. I like to think I'm illuminating their dim view by demonstrating how actable it actually is.”
What a Piece of Work is Man
“As a modern reader,” Nelson-Sommerfeldt says, “I see a person dealing with depression trying desperately to make a connection. He knows that there is beauty both in the natural world and in people, yet he can't reconcile what he knows with how he feels. The current pandemic has brought out so many of the negatives that as a society we try so hard to bury that I feel this speech will resonate with many.”