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I Love Shakespeare

To The Man Who Taught Me All About Love

By: RoaringFlameLostinShadow
Written on May 4th, 2011
I can honestly say that William Shakespeare may be one of the first men outside my family that I have ever loved. What caused my ardor you ask? As You Like It - I saw it for the first time with an uncle a few years ago and again tonight. As far as plays go, this may as well be a handbook for hopeless romantics everywhere!!! I challenge you to watch this play and not feel the fever, the fire and the sheer fervor of true love burning away in your breast. I challenge you to not hunger beyond all reason to feel a truly deep love as the characters themselves do display. I've felt romance novels, romantic comedies but never anything quite as deep as this. I do freely confess to loving this play to the point where I want a daughter by the name of Rosalind of my own flesh and blood.

By: RoaringFlameLostinShadow
Age: 31-35 , Male
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    Kathryn1985
    Kathryn1985

    Perhaps some of the greatest literary lines ever uttered have come from "As you like it." I'm thinking of the the monologue from Jacques, "All the world's a stage .. .," which speaks of seven stages of man.



    For romance and love, same play. Your Rosalind:



    No jewel is like Rosalind.

    Her worth being carried in the wind,

    Through all the world bears Rosalind.

    All the pictures fairest lined

    Are but black to Rosalind.

    Let no fair be kept in mind

    But the fair of Rosalind.

    Apr 24, 2012
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    tryshakespeare
    tryshakespeare

    True that! Bardolatry some have called it, Bernard Shaw, to be precise.

    I personally cannot have enough of Shakespeare, and the play, As You Like It, is

    a tremendous mixture of mirth and profound seriousness!



    It is an utterly sad thing that many do not know how to love, many are overtaken by emotional and hyper-active lust - these same need Rosalind to cure them.

    Jul 26, 2011
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