Thoughts on the Shakespearean Easter Egg
In the digital age, "Easter egg" has assumed a double meaning: today we use it to refer to a little lagniappe tucked away in an app, or nestled in a file hidden somewhere in a disc, which can only be unlocked by a code of keystrokes or commands.The discovery of an Easter egg yields a certain kind of aesthetic pleasure - one that echoes, for me, the pleasure of discovering the buried tropes and symbols that the Bard e…