What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.
At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage.
Shakespeare is definitely my first love.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.