As Valentine’s Day approaches, we polled our theater partners to determine who Shakespeare’s best and worst couples are and what their relationships teach us about love.
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you”: 6 Shakespeare quotes for Valentine’s Day
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Looking for a way to say “I love you” this Valentine’s Day? Say it with Shakespeare! We’ve got six new Shakespearean Valentines for you to send to that special someone.
A scene from The Tempest. Watercolor drawing by Richard Westall. Folger ART Box W522 no.5 (size L) Shakespeare’s comedies and romances are full of lovers. See if you can match each pair of lovers with the Shakespeare play in which…
The word “love” appears 2,146 times in Shakespeare’s collected works (including a handful of “loves” and “loved”). Add to that 59 instances of “beloved” and 133 uses of “loving” and you’ve got yourself a “whole lotta love.” So, what does Shakespeare have to say about love? Here are 20 quotations from the Bard about love.
"So are you to my thoughts as food to life" and more Shakespeare quotes for Valentine's Day
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Shakespeare & Beyond
Whether you’re giving a valentine to a sweetheart or a friend, why not say it with Shakespeare? See beautifully illustrated quotes for Valentine's Day.
Whether you’re giving a valentine to a sweetheart or a friend, why not say it with Shakespeare? We have a new set of beautifully illustrated Shakespeare valentines for you, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Love letters in Shakespeare: As You Like It, Hamlet, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Esther French
We look at three instances of love letters in Shakespeare’s plays: Orlando’s love poems to Rosalind in As You Like It, Hamlet’s passionate missive to Ophelia in Hamlet, and Proteus’s romantic letter to Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
A new set of Shakespeare valentines for Valentine's Day
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Shakespeare & Beyond
Whether you’re giving a valentine to a sweetheart or a friend, why not say it with Shakespeare? We have a new set of beautifully illustrated Shakespeare valentines for you, just in time for Valentine’s Day.