Comments on: Falling in Love with Shakespeare http://www.summershakespeare.org/2009/06/falling-in-love-with-shakespeare/ Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:07:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Donna http://www.summershakespeare.org/2009/06/falling-in-love-with-shakespeare/comment-page-1/#comment-6085 Donna Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:07:25 +0000 http://www.summershakespeare.org/?p=917#comment-6085 I distinctly remember my first experience with Shakespeare. It was in November of 2007; my sister and I had come up to Bob Jones for Opportunity Days and received free tickets to "Much Ado About Nothing". I sat in the right side of the balcony and didn't understand and can remember very little of the dialogue except for "Benedict the married man", but I do remember the action of the play. It was excellent! I think that experience is what made me want to know more about Shakespeare. Since then I have read over half a dozen plays and seen at least as many performances- some more than once! I especially enjoy watching the documentaries in the Classic Players' archives (over and over and over again). I distinctly remember my first experience with Shakespeare.

It was in November of 2007; my sister and I had come up to Bob Jones for Opportunity Days and received free tickets to “Much Ado About Nothing”. I sat in the right side of the balcony and didn’t understand and can remember very little of the dialogue except for “Benedict the married man”, but I do remember the action of the play. It was excellent!

I think that experience is what made me want to know more about Shakespeare. Since then I have read over half a dozen plays and seen at least as many performances- some more than once! I especially enjoy watching the documentaries in the Classic Players’ archives (over and over and over again).

]]> By: Emily http://www.summershakespeare.org/2009/06/falling-in-love-with-shakespeare/comment-page-1/#comment-763 Emily Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:05:53 +0000 http://www.summershakespeare.org/?p=917#comment-763 I'm pretty sure that my first experience with live Shakespeare came in the fall of 1989. I came to BJU (from Pennsylvania) to visit campus as a high school sophomore, and had a ticket to see Richard III. Even though I barely grasped the plot of the play or the meaning of the lines, I was hooked. Most of my Shakespeare education had to wait until I came to college, but I quickly learned to look forward to every spring & fall production. Nothing made me more happy as a teacher now (high school English) than the spring of 2007, when my small high school mounted a production of Hamlet that our audiences loved. The students walked away for a deep love of that masterpiece. I remember one public school football jock (a friend of one of our actors) running up to me afterward and saying, "Mrs Ramey, I have no idea what just happened, but that was AWESOME." He's come to every one of our plays since then. Yessss. We've hooked another one! :) I’m pretty sure that my first experience with live Shakespeare came in the fall of 1989. I came to BJU (from Pennsylvania) to visit campus as a high school sophomore, and had a ticket to see Richard III.

Even though I barely grasped the plot of the play or the meaning of the lines, I was hooked. Most of my Shakespeare education had to wait until I came to college, but I quickly learned to look forward to every spring & fall production.

Nothing made me more happy as a teacher now (high school English) than the spring of 2007, when my small high school mounted a production of Hamlet that our audiences loved. The students walked away for a deep love of that masterpiece. I remember one public school football jock (a friend of one of our actors) running up to me afterward and saying, “Mrs Ramey, I have no idea what just happened, but that was AWESOME.” He’s come to every one of our plays since then.

Yessss. We’ve hooked another one! :)

]]> By: Yorick http://www.summershakespeare.org/2009/06/falling-in-love-with-shakespeare/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Yorick Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:19:01 +0000 http://www.summershakespeare.org/?p=917#comment-45 That's great! Indeed "the play 's the thing" for hooking kids on good literature. That’s great! Indeed “the play ‘s the thing” for hooking kids on good literature.

]]> By: Lori R http://www.summershakespeare.org/2009/06/falling-in-love-with-shakespeare/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Lori R Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:58:17 +0000 http://www.summershakespeare.org/?p=917#comment-44 I'm pretty sure that my first experience with live Shakespeare came in the fall of 1989. I came to BJU (from Pennsylvania) to visit campus as a high school sophomore, and had a ticket to see Richard III. Even though I barely grasped the plot of the play or the meaning of the lines, I was hooked. Most of my Shakespeare education had to wait until I came to college, but I quickly learned to look forward to every spring & fall production. Nothing made me more happy as a teacher now (high school English) than the spring of 2007, when my small high school mounted a production of Hamlet that our audiences loved. The students walked away for a deep love of that masterpiece. I remember one public school football jock (a friend of one of our actors) running up to me afterward and saying, "Mrs Ramey, I have no idea what just happened, but that was AWESOME." He's come to every one of our plays since then. Yessss. We've hooked another one! :) I’m pretty sure that my first experience with live Shakespeare came in the fall of 1989. I came to BJU (from Pennsylvania) to visit campus as a high school sophomore, and had a ticket to see Richard III.

Even though I barely grasped the plot of the play or the meaning of the lines, I was hooked. Most of my Shakespeare education had to wait until I came to college, but I quickly learned to look forward to every spring & fall production.

Nothing made me more happy as a teacher now (high school English) than the spring of 2007, when my small high school mounted a production of Hamlet that our audiences loved. The students walked away for a deep love of that masterpiece. I remember one public school football jock (a friend of one of our actors) running up to me afterward and saying, “Mrs Ramey, I have no idea what just happened, but that was AWESOME.” He’s come to every one of our plays since then.

Yessss. We’ve hooked another one! :)

]]> By: Yorick http://www.summershakespeare.org/2009/06/falling-in-love-with-shakespeare/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Yorick Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:12:40 +0000 http://www.summershakespeare.org/?p=917#comment-35 Glad to see you're paying attention! A good editor would've had me change that, huh? Glad to see you’re paying attention! A good editor would’ve had me change that, huh?

]]> By: Dan Olinger http://www.summershakespeare.org/2009/06/falling-in-love-with-shakespeare/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Dan Olinger Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:19:06 +0000 http://www.summershakespeare.org/?p=917#comment-34 OK, I'll confess to a moment of confusion when you mentioned your fiancee and then commented that you're dating yourself. Took me a minute to figure that one out. OK, I’ll confess to a moment of confusion when you mentioned your fiancee and then commented that you’re dating yourself. Took me a minute to figure that one out.

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