My Favorite Shakespearean quotes
Sonnet 138
Shakespeare has become a great interest to me since I've started college. So far in high school and college I have read Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Macbeth, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night (on my own). In fact I saw the Rock Valley studio theater production of Twelfth Night in the fall of 1998 and it was very good. I liked Twelfth Night so much that I decided to write my Lit. term paper on it. I also have done three assignments on the above sonnet. It is now my favorite sonnet.
In October of 2000 I had the great pleasure to attend the Rock Valley College's first annual Shakespeare Festival. While there I saw As You Like It, Henry V, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. My favorite play now by far is MND. I especially loved the costuming of that particular play. My favorite scene is the Mechanical's play in the last scene. I'm greatly anticipating next year's festival.
I saw the seven academy award winning "Shakespeare in Love" the second day it came out in Rockford. I thought it was one of the best movies that I've seen in a very long time. I especially enjoyed the ending where the movie suggests that Viola (the bard's love) inspired the character of Viola in Twelfth Night. If you haven't seen "Shakespeare in Love", I highly reccommed it.