Reading is a Contact Sport
Readers are not simply consumers of text; they are co-creators of worlds.
The most famous depiction of a scene from Shakespeare is an 1851 oil painting by John Everett Millais, of Ophelia, drowning. Anyone who has read Hamlet would agree that the painting is a perfect representation of what happens to the doomed young woman, correct in every detail. Anyone who has seen a production of Hamlet has seen it play out exactly like …
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