-- shakespeare is is -- a book upon which a tran scentent rendition of midsummer night's dream ush arerred in a new era of doing shakespeare and the way shake spear was performe so why shake spear has to be asked to we can continuously view his play right's work. >> will you come back. >> i will. and i find i read the plays more than i ever did. i in find myself as bedtime reading the other night king john. i play i do not know well. and it is extremely pertinent. if you read king john right now and you're going to public up the debt crises. >> tell he how someone named william shakespeare to could that and no one has been able to do at well as that. what you're asking about are the simple but profound questions and they are pro fund. it seems such a delicious disprik irony so that shakespeare offers illumination on every part of the human condition resists analysis of himself as a character. we might have, i think, 23 single pieces of evidence about him in the public record office. they do not constitute a biography. as a result, the flash between scholars, the outrage that someone who we