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I met Shakespeare Once

This is my response to "Invalid Item"  prompt for Thursday, April 23, 2009: Today is the day traditionally celebrated as Shakespeare's birthday, though no one knows the exact date. Discuss anything Shakespeare, old English, or theatre related..

Actually it wasn’t William Shakespeare I met, but a descendant of one of his cousins or uncles. I was working at the Community College of Southern Nevada and one of the students who came into the computer lab had the last name of Shakespeare. I ask him if he was related to the Bard.

I thought it was interesting that the man was a distant cousin of William Shakespeare because the student was taking an English class and studying the works of William Shakespeare. Mr. Shakespeare (I forget the guys first name, but it wasn’t William, Bill or Willy) was studying the poems William Shakespeare.

I like the sonnets of Shakespeare (the Bard) I don’t know if his distant cousin wrote poems or sonnets. As I said, I like reading William Shakespeare’s poetry, I’m not crazy about reading the plays because I would much rather attend a performance of a Shakespeare play rather then read it.

Reading play, even one by William Shakespeare, is boring. I don’t care that much for stage directions. I’m only interested in the action of the play and the interaction between the characters and actors. So reading a play doesn’t do a lot for me.

I wonder if William Shakespeare would have a blog.