D.R. Slaten

Like many others, I labored through Shakespeare as a student, but found my love for the Bard many years later. I remember sneaking out of bed in my teens when the rest of the house was asleep to se…

Source: So Are You to My Thoughts

Hello Romance on the Rocks readers from Paris!  I hope that you are having a wonderful spring day wherever you are reading this blog.  The Shakespeare themed blogs from each of the Romanc…

Source: Shakespeare & Notre Dame

Alas, poor Yorick. And by Yorick, I mean me.

Source: Lamenting Shakespeare

When I was a teenager, I didn’t get Shakespeare. I groaned aloud in class when we had to read any of his plays—save for Romeo and Juliet. Maybe because the lovers were around my age. Or maybe…

Source: Shakespeare—Bard of the One-Liners

One Including collaborations with others, William Shakespeare authored approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, and two long narrative poems. His works have been translated into every major living lang…

Source: Five Fast Facts About William Shakespeare

Shakespeare is known for asking, “To be or not to be…that is the question.” Well, answering that question would take an infinitely long time to answer. Time this blog post canR…

Source: To Read or Not to Read

It’s a ritual of mine to sneak away from my desk in the afternoons during the spring and summer. I take a walk around the Capitol, past the Supreme Court, and down to Union Station. Every summer, t…

Source: Patiently Waiting for the Green of Spring

If I told you my favorite color is green, I know I wouldn’t be alone. I read JT’s post and I KNOW I am not alone! We share a childhood genesis of our love. The color is intertwined with…

Source: The Green Jewel

Green.  Merriam-Webster lists several meanings such as, “Fresh, New”, “pleasantly alluring” and the ideas of youth.  Although green is not my favorite color, that’s bl…

Source: Green is the Color of Change

A couple of decades ago, my dad was visiting a foreign country and observed over the course of a week that the driving conventions were…different…from what we mostly encounter in the U.…

Source: Green Means Go, Red is a Color