Treasure Chest of Thoughts

In honor of our drama department’s performing Twelfth Night in December, I am going to read this literary work, one that I cannot remember reading and after removing my Shakespeare anthology from the shelf and finding no annotations from Dr. Tebbetts’ most awesome class (and performances…he is a one-man show!), this lack of notations does affirm this.  How did I not read this one?

The probable reason is the same one I used to give my husband when he questioned why, as an English teacher, did I not know the definition of a particular word:  Just because I have an English degree does not guarantee that I know everything about the English language…or in this case, have read every Shakespearean play. Maybe we should not share this revelation with my current students?

Am very excited, though, that drama teacher Jay Williams has chosen a Shakespearean play.  Can hardly keep from wanting to be a part of such an undertaking.  Marvelous.

But be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Twelfth Night, 2. 5

Yes, this is definitely great!