The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Will says: Thank you to that one English teacher who let me come in during his free period and admit that I was completely lost. This family drama had too much palace intrigue and madness for me to follow. I still remember the line my teacher explained that made it all click for me—it being Hamlet, Shakespeare, and the idea that books might be saying more than what's right there on the page: "I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."