•What is your favorite play? Why? Well, I haven't read many of them, but I've always liked The Tempest; the setting and overall feel really appeal to me. I also enjoy As You Like It, I think the plot is rather sweet.
•Have you seen a stage production of a play? No/Yes - see below! Have you acted in one? I once wrote an abridged, adapted version of
A Midsummer Night's Dream for my siblings and I to perform. But we were all really young and only got as far as set design and rehearsals. I think it was a little too ambitious!
•What movies have you seen? Quite a few years ago I saw a Hamlet movie which was essentially the original play on film. It was very interesting, but I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I had been a few years older. I should watch it again.
Also, I've seen most of a Romeo and Juliet movie - the appropriate parts! I'm sorry, but the end of that play is so melodramatic my siblings and I always laugh.

Has anyone heard the various theories which say the plays supposedly written by Shakespeare weren't actually? I was introduced to this whole idea several years ago when my mom asked me to read
The Murder of the Man Who was Shakespeare. This book puts forth the idea that another playwright, Christopher Marlowe, authored all of the plays we know as Shakespeare's. It's a complicated story, but there's actually a lot of interesting evidence. I've never been able to think of the Bard in the same way.

If anyone wants me to give the theory in a nutshell, ask! I'll do my best - as I said it's been a few years.

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