Speaking of acting Shakespeare, read an article in Friday's New York Times

Here is the link for an article by Christopher Isherwood about acting Shakespeare in The New York Times today. Is it coincidence that Mark Rylance, whose work I like a lot, is American? Or, is some of the spirit and energy of his work due to that?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/theater/mark-rylance-and-other-shakespeareans-at-work.html?nl=theater&emc=edit_cu_20131120&_r=0