Review of A Ham in a Role

. . . minored in Shakespeare. However, one does not need to be an Anglophile to understand that A HAM IN A ROLE can easily serve as a Cliff Notes summary of most if not all important lines of dialog from the 40 or so plays churned out by Bill. From HAMLET to ROMEO AND JULIET to RICHARD III, these bon mots are all there. (Maybe the ham actor-dog never says "Out, out, dark spot," but isn't this slogan better left to Mr. Clean, anyway?) Just as Popeye is widely recognized as being "the poor man's Homer," A HAM IN A ROLE should be taken as the street bum's Bard.