I'm going to see "The Merry Wives of Windsor" this weekend at the Shakespeare Festival. I haven't read the play. The English major in me is having a hard time with this - but not enough of a hard time that I've been able to force myself to read the play from the Norton Shakespeare Anthology that has been sitting patiently on my kitchen table for weeks now. That big red book reminds me of college and the pain and anguish of Dr. Jensen's Shakespeare class.
Am I a bad person if I don't read the play before I go to see it performed? I should know the characters, the intricacies of the language, the societal norms of the time and how Shakespeare was cheekily critiquing them with his words. And I don't. I feel like I'm going to
hell I mean... H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks.
I am a bad person. DANG IT.
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