We asked our followers on Twitter to share some stories about a time they experienced Shakespeare with their families. We got so many responses! Here are just a few of our favorites, but you can see more on Twitter. Add your story in the comments below or tweet it to @FolgerLibrary.
When my niece was eight, she saw a @PublicTheaterNY production of TWELFTH NIGHT and laughed so hard she literally fell out of her seat. When she got up, she asked "Did Shakespeare write any more comedies?" She's been a fan ever since.
— broadwayandme (@broadwayandme) November 15, 2017
Each night of their lives as I tuck my daughters (now 16 and 18) into bed, I whisper in their ears, "Good night sweet princess and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest." Very sweet until my older daughter read "Hamlet" as a senior! Now, it's complicated.
— Melissa Wolfe (@MelissaWolfe24) November 15, 2017
Flew to London to see Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet and, at the last minute, invited a friend who was there studying to see it with me. Married 23 years, we consider that our first date. Celebrated our 20th seeing him in Macbeth.
— Val (@ccstarrysea) November 15, 2017
The time I started the youngest shakespeare troupe in the U. S. with my 5 year old daughter.A playdate turned into The Tempest @ladramaclub pic.twitter.com/SlAdtFscLz
— Blaire Baron (@BlaireBaron) November 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/MarekKrawczyk/status/930966478156857344
I took a tour of Folger for my bachelorette party! My sister arranged it.
— Sarah Fitzgerald (@msfitz302) November 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/MrShaxper/status/930915227251691520
https://twitter.com/TheGraceKathryn/status/930613872238776320
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I’m a researcher on the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language at Lancaster University. So I work with Shakespeare every day. Which is funny because both my grandfather’s loved Shakespeare but died 20 years before I was born. Shakespeare is in my genes.
Sean Murphy — November 21, 2017
Being theatre majors, my husband and I made sure our boys read Shakespeare and watched films, but the real thrill came when we took them to see Midsummer Night’s Dream in Stratford, Ontario. To see their eyes light up or jaws drop as they watched and laughed meant the world to me. They were hooked and we still share memories of that experience even as we make new memories with other Shakespeare productions, including several of us participating in a production of Much Ado. Nothing better in life than that.
Susan Edgren — November 21, 2017
When I was playing Lord Capulet three of my sisters brought my mother down to NC from her assisted care facility in MD. At the intermission, my mother said, “I guess Bob’s part is not very big!”
Bob Husson — November 21, 2017