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Archives for April 2019

So Are You to My Thoughts

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Like many others, I labored through Shakespeare as a student, but found my love for the Bard many years later. I remember sneaking out of bed in my teens when the rest of the house was asleep to see the end of the original Romeo and Juliet. I also remember being so shaken by the ending, that it stayed with me for years. My reintroduction to Shakespeare came in a most unusual … [Read more...]

Shakespeare & Notre Dame

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Hello Romance on the Rocks readers from Paris!  I hope that you are having a wonderful spring day wherever you are reading this blog.  The Shakespeare themed blogs from each of the Romance on the Rocks writers have been amazing this month so I thought I would do something a little different. Actually, I'm going to go totally off the rails for my Shakespeare … [Read more...]

Lamenting Shakespeare

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Alas, poor Yorick. (Hamlet, Act 5, Sc. 1)  And by Yorick, I mean me.  I have a tale! For the ages, I am certain. Filled with Despair and Despondency, Discouragement and Desperation. I share it with you below, because we must Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o-erfraught heart and bids it break. (Macbeth, Act 4, Scene … [Read more...]

Shakespeare—Bard of the One-Liners

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When I was a teenager, I didn't get Shakespeare. I groaned aloud in class when we had to read any of his plays—save for Romeo and Juliet. Maybe because the lovers were around my age. Or maybe it was because the 1968 film by Franco Zeffrelii was steaming hot. As a young teen, it was one of the few sexy, romantic movies I could get away with watching, because I was learning … [Read more...]

Five Fast Facts About William Shakespeare

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One Including collaborations with others, William Shakespeare authored approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, and two long narrative poems. His works have been translated into every major living language and are the most performed works of any playwright. Two Shakespeare was only 18 when he married the 26-year-old, Anne Hathaway. The marriage was performed in haste and … [Read more...]