Happy Birthday Shakespeare!

I've only just recently jumped onto the Shakespeare bandwagon.  I, of course, read his works in high school but like most high school students I really didn't "get" it or the appeal.  They were just assignments I needed to finish.  But the more I read now, the more I realize just how very talented and influential this man really was. 

This is by far my favorite of anything he's ever written.  It's the most repeated and cliche but it's also the most beautiful.  It's been recited thousands of times and each time some actor brings something different to it, yet it's always heartbreaking.  Good old Will deserves a lifetime of thanks if this masterpiece was his only contribution to literature.  Thank goodness it isn't and we have so much more to be thankful to him for.

Happy birthday Will and Thanks for an entire library's worth of thought and enjoyment!