SHAKESPEARE!!!!!!!!! Good, now that i have your attention i can get my point to you. Usually when that word is said, fear is struck into the hearts and hears of high school students across the country. Who could blame them. I mean the Language is different, the events in the plays happened centuries before modern times, so who cares right? I do. I am a Theatre major in college and have been exposed to all of his plays for years now and i absolutely love them. almost no other playwright has created characters that have influenced so many others in pop culture and literature. That's what this blog is about. An exposure to the characters and stories immortalized by Shakespeare that influence many other characters in film, literature, and Theater. These characters and stories shouldn't be a shock to anyone...but they might.