Epigraph

Are all the people mad?

(Twelfth Night)

I felt rather lonely this morning so I went and unbox’d a Shakespeare – ‘There’s my Comfort’.

(John Keats)

INTERVIEWER: Which are your favorite contemporary writers?

NABOKOV: Shakespeare.

INTERVIEWER: We said ‘contemporary’.

NABOKOV: Always Shakespeare.

My offering is a period piece. I hope you may enjoy looking back over my shoulder.

(David Niven, The Moon’s a Balloon)