Into the (Shakespearean) Woods

(Photograph: Ted Ojarovsky) In Shakespeare, as in myths and stories throughout the ages, forests are magical and transformative places. Weavers grow ass-heads in Shakespeare's woods. Lovers elope. They write reams of passionate letters and fall in and out of love there. Rebels hide out and plot their attacks on kings. Young women and men are banished. And in one famous scene, the woods themselves move, defying the infamous ambition of a Scottish king who claims that no "tree can unfix his earth ...