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fallingtowers August 3 2010, 20:19:55 UTC
For me, it was actually the first play I read in the original Klingon English -- or, at least, in a "more original" English Penguin paperback edition than my 19th-century German translation without footnotes. I too probably didn't understand all that much of the play's language (I was fourteen at the time, but with four years of high-school English under the belt, Shakespeare is a wee bit hard), but what I did understand I loved.

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17catherines August 3 2010, 23:44:28 UTC
Romeo and Juliet was the first of Shakespeare's actual plays that I encountered, too - I played incidental music for it in a school production in year nine, when I was 14.

I completely fell for Mercutio (the actress playing him was very talented). Completely and utterly. All those words! And all those puns! How could I not fall in love? I had the whole play memorised for about a year afterward; I still have most of Mercutio's lines memorised.

I wonder, now, if the other reason I fixated so much on Mercutio is that I always had to go home at the end of Act III because it was past my bedtime? I think a lot of Juliet's best lines are later in the play, and while I have grown to love Juliet, I've never really taken to Romeo...

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