I believe that the American love for Shakespeare can be summed up in the words of an anonymous cowboy.
The historian Philip Ashton Rollins, in his post-Civil War work about life on the range, visited a ranch where the cowboys who could read would sometimes perform speeches for those who could not. After a rousing rendition of Mark Antony's "Dogs of War" speech from Julius Caesar, Rollins heard a young cowboy cried out: "Gosh! That fellow Shakespeare could sure spill the real stuff. He's the only poet I ever seen what fed on raw meat."
The post Shakespeare Among the Cowboys appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Source: Washington Free Beacon