Day 15: The First Play You Read

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This will be a very short post, because I don't actually know. I think it was almost certainly either Hamlet, or Macbeth, or Twelfth Night, or Romeo and Juliet, or A Midsummer Night's Dream, since those were the five plays in the "Stories from Shakespeare" book that my dad brought us as a gift when he went to England on a business trip, and it makes more sense that I would have decided to read a play that I was already familiar with, rather than dipping into the Complete Works at random. But I can't narrow it down any further than that.

Anyway, I know for sure that I had read MND by the end of the fifth grade, because my teacher absolutely refused to believe that I had read it, and started asking me a bunch of questions about the plot that were, I suppose, meant to trip me up. (She seemed to take it as a personal triumph that I mispronounced "Demetrius," although surely, not knowing how to pronounce all the names is the mark of a kid who actually HAS read the book, rather than seeing a film version or being told what the story is about. So I have no idea what that was supposed to prove.)



Day #1: Your favorite play
Day #2: Your favorite character
Day #3: Your favorite hero
Day #4: Your favorite heroine
Day #5: Your favorite villain
Day #6: Your favorite villainess
Day #7: Your favorite clown
Day #8: Your favorite comedy
Day #9: Your favorite tragedy
Day #10: Your favorite history
Day #11: Your least favorite play
Day #12: Your favorite scene
Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line