> I even wrote a paper in my Shakespeare class > comparing rock stars to Elizabethan actors using a few quotes from Jerry > Garcia and I aced it!! I *love* doing that! I think it's an entirely appropriate analogy, too. I guess it's the metaphysical-poet side of me that will use *any* analogy if it best gets across what I'm trying to say. I compared Shakespeare's `Troilus and Cressida' to Monty Python's `Life of Brian' (i.e. it's a story that occurs alongside a larger, more significant event but also mirroring it in a perverse way) and got an 85 for it (: Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest