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#1549 Welcome to Listening to America
Listening to America
The Importance of Shakespeare
When I wanted to do Shakespeare, it was sort of a one man Shakespeare recitation program. Paul played the grave digger the clown there and we've had a wonderful time with it. He agreed not only to be in it and to direct it but to appear with me after the intermission in the maybe the greatest scene in Hamlet. Act 5, scene 1, The Graveyard which ends with Hamlet saying alas, Porioric. "I spend more time thinking about Jefferson than about any other subject," he says.
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