We sometimes speak of someone having a vivid imagination or the opposite, having no imagination at all! The word imagination and image are closely linked.   In Judaeo-Christian teaching the second of the Ten Commandments forbids making a representation of God in the form of an image (also called an idol). But why? Well, religious idols fall so far short of the reality that is God our creator ,they can only dishonour him. How would Shakespeare have reacted if his literary wor