My teacher started today with a discussion about William Shakespeare. I can’t remember how we got on the topic, he might have brought it up. Anyway, after I talked for a while about how we studied him in high school and which plays I had seen and/or read, he told me about a popular theory here. There are some that believe that Bill’s ancestors came from Yemen! The evidence? C’mon, Sheik-spear? Seriously, some people believe that before Islam showed up, people dispersed from Yemen all over the world, including William’s ancestors. I asked to make sure I was understanding this right, that his family members would hold on to the name “Sheik-something” for a 1000 years. “Right!” Right….
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You haven’t heard Shakespeare until you’ve heard it in the original Klingon.