F OR T HE L OVE OF S HAKESPEARE ! By Elissa Harris April Period 3

I NTRODUCTION For my project I took quotes from different Shakespeare plays and sonnets and, using the topic of love, made a found poem out of it. Plays used: Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Night’s Dream Love’s Labour's Lost Hamlet Sonnet 88

“Is love a tender thing?”

“ Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lover’s eyes…”

“ Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”

“Things base and vile folding no quantity love can transpose to form and dignity…”

“Form’d by the eye and therefore, like the eye, full of strange shapes, of habits and forms…”

“But I never doubt I love”

“Such is my love to thee I so belong. That for thy right myself will hear all wrong.”

“This is the very ecstasy of love…”