Ayn Rand was not impressed. She found Shakespeare wanting for his tragic sense of life, man as not being in control of his destiny. Perhaps the fault was hers that she mistook our destinies lying not in the stars, under which there are more mysteries than within her philosophy, dear Horatio. I have written here about my own good times at a local Shakespeare Festival four summers running where I took the tides at their turning. That being as it may, perhaps you would care to explain why Ayn Rand was wrong about Shakespeare and why you enjoy the plays. (Failing your submission, I will offer one of my own. I am an Oxfordian.) "Oh, brave new world that has such creatures in it!"