Happy Birthday, Willy!!
Today marks 445 years since Shakespeare's birth, and, in honor, NYU Tisch in London has gotten us tickets to see the opening night of Romeo and Juliet at The Globe tonight. I cannot think of a more wonderful thing to do on this beautiful spring day! In honor of seeing possibly the most beautiful play ever written on a stage which it was designed for, I give you a mere two of my favorite quotes, both of which give me tears just reading them.
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
When he bestrides the lazy-puffing clouds
And sails upon the bosom of the air.
-Romeo, 2.1
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
-Juliet 2.1