I was truly saddened to learn of the death of the great Patrick Stewart. Though he’s best known for playing Captain Picard on Star Trek, I really savored him as an interpreter of Shakespeare. One of my favorite of his performances was as Enobarbus in a production of Antony and Cleopatra. But I also loved him as Macbeth in a modern adaptation of the Scottish Play and as King Claudius in Hamlet. One of the very few bright spots during the awful Covid period was Stewart’s daily presentation of a Shakespeare sonnet from his back garden in Los Angeles. Dare I admit too that I loved his many appearances on Family Guy and as the narrator of the Ted movies? God rest you, Patrick Stewart, and “may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”