The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across - were in 'The Iliad': the escape of Aeneas with his father on his back, the Trojans, from their burning city, and the defeat of their kingdom and what they had to do to try and find safety.
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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.