The teaching of Shakespeare should be compulsory.

When Shakespeare wrote into Othello's mouth that he had seen,

" The Anthropothagi whose heads do dwell beneath their necks ",

when he was justifying his prowess before the Venetian court; well, I thought - ' That's bloody good! '

What a metaphor for an exotic journeyman! What a CV! Match that!
So, as a teenager, I ventured forth...

And I found...

" And, as imagination bodies forth

The form of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

Such tricks hath strong imagination, ...

This is a speech by Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

That is the poetic light that shines behind every poet's sensibility since the Renaissance in Europe, and that has blazed across the Western world ever since.

It takes account, due to the Renaissance's recognition of ancient scripts, of Greek and Arabic histories. That is - Othello himself, and his recollections of other lands he felt were valuable in his experience. Lands experience. Those lands beyond Europe. 
 
Europe where the Anthropothagi dwell. 
 
There is a coming-together,in Elizabethan times, that melded coming-together, in ancient and modern. Truly, a Renaissance.
Hence the modern.  
Renaissance.  
We should Renaissance!  
be doing it now, in our terms. 
 
A. Moore



terms. In our day!