Sharing Shakespeare

So, as one of our classes learning outcomes, we are trying to share Shakespeare with those around us.  I thought I'd share a couple of these:

First, a funny one.  Last week, I was over at a friend's apartment where I made some pizza with my new pizza stone. (And yes, it is amazing and if Shakespeare had had one there'd probably be an entire play devoted to it.  It'd probably be a Romance play due to mysticism, or something like that. Anyway, enough of this rambling.)  While eating the pizza, we watched a movie on her laptop (she has Netflix).  She asks what I want to watch, and I jokingly say "Romeo and Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss" because she was just scrolling past it and--let's be honest--really??? But, that reminded me about Henry V, so I seriously said we should watch that.  Sadly, she replied that she'd rather watch the former.  Fail.

Needless to say, we didn't watch either.

This next one will be fun.  This Saturday we are going to watch The Merchant of Venice.  And I have a friend coming with me.  Sadly, I'm not as cool as that sounds.  She actually brought it up first.  But still, I think that it'll be a lot of fun.  I can honestly say that bringing a date to a proper Shakespeare play hadn't really crossed my mind before now, so let's just say that there is hope for me yet!!!