friends, romans, country men... lend me your ears.

Sounds familiar?  I hope it should for those of you who are either in highschool or have finished highschool.  If you're in middle school and know this line, great for you, I have a feeling you're going to excel come high school.  For those of you who don't know this very famous line, it's from Shakespeare's play "Julius Caeser" where Marc Antony is giving a soliloquy, which really just is a fancy word for speech.  Anyways!  Julius Caeser and Shakespeare.  What's so special about Shakespeare?  He was born rich, but then his father gambled away all of the family's money.  He got a woman pregant at the age of 18, her name was , I kid you not, Anne Hathaway, who, by the way, was 6 or so, I may be wrong, years older than he.  So that must have been awkward.  PLUS!  He HATED her, which didn't help their marrige they were both forced into.  Then, they had three more kids, another girl, and a set of twins, but, one of the twins died... Hamnet was his name.  Sounds familiar?  Exactly!  It is said that Shakespeare wrote the play Hamlet in honor of his young son Hamnet.  But, Shakespeare's life story isn't what makes him so special and worth learning about.  What makes him so special is that he wrote about instances that were universal; that were understandable for the lowiest of people to the highest of people, from those on the Eastern hemispher, to those on the Western hemispher.  What he wrote about didn't have any goal to become rich (which he actually wasn't during his time).  He wrote because his heart told him too; because he needed a way to express his life.  And THAT'S why I think Shakespeare is important... anyone think otherwise?  (If anyone is reading, comment below and tell me what your two-cents is on Shakespeare.)