In honor of the Shakespeare activity in the Reference Discoveries to Share #1, I picked a classic Shakespeare quote for this week.
I thought it was ironic that as I was reading through that activity my iBook happened to be propped up by my priceless copy of "The Riverside Shakespeare." While Shakespeare is extremely well known for his tragedies like "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet" and "Othello" or, comedies like "A Midsummer's Night Dream" and "As You Like It" we must not forget the historical and social implications Shakespeare wove into his work. "Henry V" is a war history. While I'm not going to comment on the current war because what does the average American really know about the inner workings of the military and the U.S. government? I will say that there is relevance in histories, epics and literature written hundreds of years ago. Sometimes we get too caught up in technology, the future and what is to come. There's nothing that new in the world today that separates us from what was and what will be.
That is why I have a bookshelf, filled with books, sitting behind me and not a Sony pagereader sitting on my desk. At a moments hankering I can pull out my warn copy of "The English Patient" and have an impromtu reading. There is something pure and timeless about rifling through a book, looking for the answers, seeing words on the printed page, being able to physically touch the page. So, I think it's funny that the two reference classes I've been in so far, have focused almost exclusively on the internet for reference sources...
Can anyone answer this pop-culture question with/without using the internet..." In what 1997 Award Winning movie is the first line of this passage from Shakespeare quoted?
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