4 Reasons to own Shakespeare

1. Impress your friends (if they're of that sort...). They're usually pretty on the shelf

2. Woo anyone, anytime (or re-woo)

• Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. ~Antony and Cleopatra
• Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you, did My heart fly to your service. ~The Tempest
• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?it is the east, and Juliet (insert name) is the sun. ~Romeo and Juliet

3. A treasured source of clever insults

• I do desire we may be better strangers.
  As You Like It (3.2.248)
• There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune. 1 Henry IV (3.3.40)
• Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!
  King Lear (2.2.61)

By the way, if a you are curious, you can create your own very clever Shakespearean insults at http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/shake_rule.html



4. Complete volumes have innumerable uses.
See picture at the right.