Hamlet's Dresser A Memoir

"Bob Smith grew up in a town named for Shakespeare's birthplace: Stratford, Connecticut. His troubled childhood was spent in a struggle to help his devastated parents care for his severely retarded sister. But at age ten, Smith stumbled onto a line from The Merchant of Venice: "In sooth I know not why I am so sad." In the language of Shakespeare, he had found a window through which to view the world.". "When he was a teenager, the American Shakespeare Festival moved into Stratford and Smith became Hamlet's dresser…