- I think that "the whole world is a playhouse" is a metaphor, meaning that we are all living in a world-wide, ongoing play. Perhaps Shakespeare believed that everyone has a destiny, in which case the script is already written, or perhaps he believed that we are all masters of our own fates, meaning that the world is one big improvisation performance in which we are making up the script as we go along.
- I love Shakespeare's comedies; A Midsummer Night's Dream is my favorite. When I watched the Old Globe Theater's performance of this play last summer, there were some parts during which I literally could not stop laughing.
- I think that Shakespeare's language is interesting. Obviously, he didn't write it to cater to people in our day and age, but from the perspective of one who is alive now, it is hard enough to understand to be interesting, yet understandable enough that I can follow along with his plays. I wonder how many of his plays rhyme, or have rhyming parts in them, as A Midsummer Night's Dream does at the end.