All the world's a stage and all the men and women are merely players

Alright, onto Thursday!  And Friday morning.  These were the Shakespeare days!

Yeah, so Thursday morning and afternoon were taken up with classes.  But after dinner we went to the Globe Theater (reconstructed) to see As You Like It, which is currently my favorite Shakespeare play.  We had rather lousy seats, way off to the side with a big pillar that occasionally got in the way, but it was still really awesome.  I'd never seen Shakespeare performed before, and it just made the play so much more delightful.  I loved it so much.

Catherine and I in our seats at the Globe.

It was a really splendid show, and one of my favorite things that I've done so far in London.  The next day we went back to the Globe to take a tour.  They took us nearby to see the remains of the Rose Theater, which was the first one in the area and is now under water, and then across the street to the site of the original Globe, which now is a parking lot and a building of some kind, perhaps apartments.  We then went back to the Globe and went through the theater.  They were actually in the middle of a rehearsal for their next show, Much Ado About Nothing, so we saw a segment of that, and it was amazing!  In fact, it was so good that a bunch of us decided that we were going to go back and see it.  We bought groundling tickets for five pounds (which was the most exciting part) so we'll be doing it just like the poorer commoners of Shakespeare's time.