In a very influential book, Harold Bloom claimed that Shakespeare invented the human being: well, I don’t have the tools to confirm this statement. He certainly helped me, and many others like me, to better understand humanity, including my own. The Shakespearean corpus is a map of human relationships ready to use. “Ready to use”, as long as we continue to work on it, like mechanics, like gardeners, never considering it an immobile and immovable Sacred Text, whose interpretation must be entrusted to a few priests, but a living matrix, a mock-up, or rather a lens with which to read the contemporaneity that can belong to everyone. I share this belief with many great masters, but very humbly I would like to tell you how I got there; how, ultimately, Shakespeare changed my life (for the better).
