Benefiting Humanity

I attended the benefit for the Grove Shakespeare Festival last night (“A Midsummer Night’s Eve at the Grove II” on July 29) and found it overwhelming in its power. The best of Shakespeare can really knock the socks off you (“To be or not to be” soliloquy from “Hamlet,” “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” soliloquy from “Macbeth.”)

Seeing Shakespeare’s plays at the Grove, or anywhere, adds much richness to our lives, not only because of the characters, the plots and the magnificent lines which we encounter, but also because of the humanistic philosophy they espouse, which brings home to us what it means to be human, and helps us better understand ourselves.

EDITH HARVATH

Buena Park