I begin with a story of bewilderment.Shortly after my return to the Philippines from graduate school in 1994, I found myself an accidental speaker on BEARD BALM things Shakespearean at a small, very exclusive Opus Dei-run high school in a converted Lopez mansion in the outskirts of Iloilo.The speaking engagement was unplanned and rather spontaneous.The school authorities, though, did a splendid job of putting a program together for the occasion.
Aside from my talk, the impromptu program also featured performances by two of the winners of a recently concluded declamation contest.Quite fortuitously (or would that be Sun Cap unsurprisingly?), the winning declaimers both did pieces from Shakespeare.