As recounted by Drew:
At dinner tonight, Rachel raised her glass of milk and called out, "More ale, Maria!"
"Where did THAT come from?" Drew asked.
"From Twelfth Night," she said. "It's what Sir Toby says."
Drew cracked up. That started a discussion of Shakespeare -- Rachel has the kids' version of his plays that we bought her at a festival last year in Bellevue, Wash. -- and she said her favorite plays were "Twelfth Night" and a "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Sometimes, though, she gets tired of stories with happy endings so she reads "Hamlet" because "everybody dies in the end."
And THEN they got to discussing what characters to cast in the Disney version of "Macbeth." They decided that Mickey would be Malcolm or Macduff. Clarabelle would be Lady Macbeth, and Donald would be King Duncan.
Drew and I have decided that we want to take her to the Folger Shakespeare Library's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" early next year. I bet she really gets into it!
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