Thank you, Mary, for your excellent article. I will have to dust off my copy of Hamlet and read it again. By the way, I have always thought there was more to Romeo and Juliet than a sad love story--estrangement, death, and reconciliation. Sounds a lot like Christianity to me. But then again, I wonder if I am reading into it what was not intended. But then, how do we know what Shakespeare intended? But, does it matter? (I had a friend who was a modern artist. We would look at a picture and I would say, "What is it?" He would reply, "It's art. It's whatever you want it to be." I'm not sure Shakespeare was such a postmodern subjectivist.) It seems like the big human issues, such as "to be," or estrangement, death, and reconciliation, are contemplated by many thoughtful writers. One does not need to be Christian to ponder such questions. But praise God, that in Christ we know the right answers. I hope Shakespeare did also.