How Literary Characters Will Spend Valentine's Day
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By: Josh Perilo
Valentine's Day is boring. There are only so many combinations of flowers/dinner/movie that can be created to "celebrate" it. And for a holiday that’s ...
More→tags: valentine's day | romeo and juliet | dates | romance | literary characters | bilbo
One-Sentence Lessons I Learned from Classic Literature
By: Contributor
dac213 cracked us UP with this ingenious post—just wait 'til you get to number 7.—Sparkitors
English teachers are always trying to get us ...
More→tags: life lessons | romeo and juliet | lord of the flies | the stranger | literature | funny things | classic literature | catcher in the rye | classics | great gatsby | the secret life of bees | as i lay dying
A Disaster in Juliet's Bed
By: Contributor
It's cool that we LOLed through all of these theater mishaps, right? Thanks for making our day, strangeNilikeit! —Sparkitors
I haven't slept in a ...
More→tags: theater | sparkler posts | romeo and juliet | summer | disasters | blogging shakespeare camp
The Greatest Modern Love Stories
By: Dan_Bergstein
While preparing for tonight’s Romeo + Juliet live-blog, we got to thinking: What current love stories will school kids in the year 2517 ...
More→tags: movies | romeo and juliet | romeo + juliet | love stories | sparknotes movie club
The SparkNotes Movie Club Presents: Romeo + Juliet
By: Dan_Bergstein
February is a month of love. It’s also a month of slushy roads, but it’s easier to find a movie with a romantic theme than ...
More→tags: valentine's day | romeo and juliet | recaps and reviews | romeo + juliet | baz luhrmann | leonardo di caprio | claire danes | sparknotes movie club
Condensed Classics = AWESOME
By: Contributor
princess_caroline21, you may have just changed our lives FOREVER.—Sparkitors
If you're anything like...
More→tags: twilight | romeo and juliet | wuthering heights | classic books | required reading
My Crush is a Shakespearean Character
By: Contributor
Sorry, madra_allta, but we'll always love Romeo—as long as he's played by Leonardo DiCaprio, that is.—Sparkitors
To ...
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Introducing Two New Video SparkNotes!
By: Emily Winter
Hey, you summery pajamaheads! Remember school? And studying and stuff? And how much you hated it?!
We don't care!
Just because you're no longer held hostage in ...
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Why Does Friar Lawrence Have a Date Rape Drug?: Puzzling Questions About the Classics
By: Contributor
FadingRose has some interesting questions about the classics. Personally, we've always wondered why Hester didn't just tell everyone what a weenie Dimmesdale is....
More→tags: romeo and juliet | 1984 | books we luv to hate | frankenstein | the odyssey | oedipus | classic books
Romeo & Juliet: A Bad Relationship Model?
By: Contributor
Romeo, Romeo, how could you possibly fall so hard for that girl, Romeo?! In this post, Sparkler Etoile_Fille takes a closer look at what exactly...
More→tags: sparkler posts | relationships | romeo and juliet | today in books | shakespeare
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