Thursday, July 30, 2015

Lunch With Shakespeare.......by Joyce Oroz



Recently my friend and I were looking for a place to eat lunch. 
“In a pickle,” (The Tempest) we were looking for a good fish 
restaurant in Moss Landing. It was only eleven o’clock in the 
morning and the town was “as dead as a doornail” (Henry VI) 


Photo by Robert Scoles

We parked the car and entered a rustic looking building with 
a shingle that read, SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 
They do not serve food, by the way. We just wanted to poke 
our noses inside to see what the place was all about. 
Forty-five minutes later we left the building, our heads 
spinning with facts and trivia on William Shakespeare. 
We saw so many antique books, paintings, statues and 
stuff relating to William.

The gift shop, however, was completely modern and full 
of great jewelry and gifts. The sales help to support 
the society. “There’s a method in their madness.” (Hamlet)
The big question is; why Moss Landing? Some things are 
simply unexplainable, “neither here nor there.” (Othello)


“In the twinkling of an eye” (The Merchant of Venice) we 
found The Whole Enchilada just two blocks away, and had 
“too much of a good thing.” (As You Like It) We were 
“a sorry sight” (Macbeth) as we waddled back to the car, stuffed full of enchiladas and knowledge about the most famous writer ever!
 
Shakespeare Society of America
New Shakespeare Sanctuary
7981 Moss Landing Road
Moss Landing, CA 95039
(831) 633-2989



Sonnet 18
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date".


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