Shakespeare took his writing religiously. His characters speak of the personal experiences anyone writing goes through. Ophelia countering the sanctimoniousness of her brother comes as a writer's self-defense for viewing life as it is, with seediness and 'sin' as well as the prim and proper. Othello's tragedy compares to the losses an individual faces for pursuing a mad career like writer dramatist humorist poet and tragedian. Hamlet is the playwright's great accomplishment, the defense of all writers. King Claudius stands in as the powers of socio-economic realities that can not be easily dismissed if one wants to live a half-way decent life. (Proper that poets study kings.) His works portray the bad times as well as the beauty a writer goes through, all that is grist for the mill, that a writer must expose himself to in order to see clearer and farther, closer and better.

He did in such a way as to follow a Christian model, the works reeking of a man who tried the best he could to be on the level of Christian morality. He ends up being, at an early age, a remarkable source of wisdom. He releases the high moral animal within to make observation in a world recovering from the Dark Ages and struggling with its own brutal times.

Ultimately, a writer serves a simple dish, morality, not of the simple kind. It can only be a refined one, sensitive, subtle, flexible, responsive, rather than a know-it-all proclamation of right and wrong. He speaks as one who has been there, you might say, and suffered, claiming no superiority, using words as he might to show shifting sands. His words serve us openly and graciously, to be taken and usefully interpreted through all our times.