Recommended Reading

[Kira]

Thank goodness that movie wasn't around when I took Romeo and Juliet.

All I've really had time to read recently is stuff for school, and that means Shakespeare. "Romeo and Juliet" was good, but I liked "A Midsummer Night's Dream" a lot better.

I'm a fan of the "comedies" over the tragedies too, but nothing has ever been able to stand up to my high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (or adaptation thereof). The guy we had playing Puck was so perfect that I've never been able to see any other version since. My two favorite adaptations are Much Ado About Nothing with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson (and Keanu Reeves, BOOO!) and Twelfth Night with Helena Bonham-Carter. Shakespeare in Love, too, just for pure cleverness and the mixture of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night.