Greenblatt on Sendak--and Sendak and Shakespeare

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/books/review/the-connection-between-shakespeare-and-maurice-sendak.html?nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20130208&_r=0

Sendak knew Shakespeare as well as any professor. 

 Greenblatt does not talk here about Sendak's intention to draw the cover pictures for a set of discs of Shakespeare's plays. I remember the quite astonishing endowment he gave Bottom. That I think was the end of that enterprise.

I remember also Sendak's interest in the way one of the Greenblatt sons ("Noah," is it?) approached--warily, from a safe distance, then risked closer movement.