[Music] In my role as a university educator, it is my job to convince my students and you in the audience here today that Shakespeare is not just a collection of books collecting dust on a shelf, but they are living and breathing texts. They are something that we can all enter into, that we can access, that we can analyze, and that we can enjoy. I often step into the classroom and surprise my students by saying that I'm not here to tell you what these texts mean. I'm here to invite you to a range of differe ...