A little ShakespeareIn honor of the summer solstice, a passage from A Midsummer Night's Dream:
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
(Act V, Scene I)
I took a course on Shakespeare at my university one summer, but, really, I was too young for him. I was only 20. Today I'm ten years older; the world is my university now and the subject—life. And ten years hence I will say to myself, "I was still too young!"
3 comments:
diz, even I am still too young for him. But i visit his hometown religiously every summer! Yes, today is indeed the longest day!
In fact, "Shakespeare in the Park" is a popular here during the summer—free performances at Central Park. If you were here, we could go together.
diz, looks more likely that u are here (london) than i am there (NY) anyway, the nearest i had to a shakespeare experience is at the Globe theatre - watching King Lear or something, with audience standing all around in the open air theatre when suddenly a plane flew past and the actor made a reference to it!
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