Shakespeare!!

I am really into, and digging Shakespeare! The only problem I have is that no one else I know right now enjoys it like I do. Everyone thinks Shakespeare's stories are "boring", or "hard to understand", or "educational", or "too wordy"... yet they will sit and watch a soap opera or reality TV show (which are nothing but talking) and won't bat an eye. 

 The fact is, Shakespeare's plays are edge-of-your-seat melodrama! The action is driven by the dialog. If I tell you about a battle I witnessed, would you say it was boring because I did not show you film footage of the battle? No! Through intensity, description, and tone of voice, my story could be exciting and even thrilling. So it is with Shakespeare... 

Does this sound boring to you? Macbeth includes intense battles, regicide, prophetic witches, bloody daggers, a creepy castle, madness, suicide, ghosts, murder-for-hire, hallucinations, treachery, a sword-fight showdown, and a brilliant surprise ending. 

Hamlet includes swordfights, gravediggers, ghosts, murders, treachery, madness, trickery, an assassination, incest (sort of), drunkeness, suicide, poisoned drinks, poisoned swords, and deaths galore. 

 Titus Andronicus has war, murder, human sacrifice, cutting off hands, cutting out a tongue, rape, infanticide, hangings, beheadings, and even cannibalism. 

 The Tempest has an enchanted island, a roaming monster, an angelic creature, a wizard, some hilarious drunken fools, romance, and fighting. 

 Richard III includes treachery, trickery, murder, abuse of power, villainy, multiple ghosts, and a huge final battle scene. Boring? Please.

There is more to entertain here than any modern movie. Each play has its share of plot twists, surprises, fiendish villains, death, gallant heroes, beautiful women, and hilarious comedy relief. 

In short... real entertainment!