21 The Play’s the Thi And when plays from classical Greece made their way west in the Renaissance, and when a new world was discovered hiding behind the western sea, poets didn’t have to invent the drama all over again. They already had it, vibrant, popular, and deeply theological. The man of muscles was ready for action. So the Church revived the drama, and gave the world the greatest dramatist who ever lived, a man from a Catholic family, who saw those rough and tumble plays when he was a boy, and learned from them, even as his poetry soared beyond what heights the villagers could attain. That boy’s name was William Shakespeare. ••
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