Introduction What would you say to the greatest writer who ever lived, if you could ask him one question no one has ever dared to ask?I’ve wanted to sit down with William Shakespeare for years. But I didn’t fully understand why until this year, when my youngest son left for university. The house grew quiet. And I kept thinking about a father, four hundred … [Read more...] about Shakespeare Imagined Interview: Hamnet, Hamlet, and Grief
The Tempest
The Tempest analysis in the Afterlife Tribunal
What if Prospero had to defend his mercy after death—without magic?Main Introduction by Shakespeare I wrote of storms once as a stage-trick—thunder borrowed, lightning feigned, a ship split apart in sound and terror. Yet what haunted me was never the tempest itself, but what men become when the ground is taken from beneath them. Strip away office and title, strip … [Read more...] about The Tempest analysis in the Afterlife Tribunal