Reading the assignments from the Elizabethan Era brought me great joy, mainly due to the fact that Shakespeare just makes me happy; I think this is actually the case with many people, they just don’t know it. My love of Shakespeare and his plays grew exponentially in high school when I had a teacher who brought her love for him into the classroom and opened our eyes to how modern he really is. This love reached all new heights when I traveled to London and saw Shakespeare Reduced performed live in traditional English fashion! Reading The Tempest had all of those memories flooding in. The Tempest includes all the best parts of Shakespeare’s work; there is humor, I laughed aloud when Prospero is telling Miranda of how they came to be on the island
