Jasmine Kirkland
Kissing Shakespeare
Pamela Mingle
Main Characters: William Shakespeare- A handsome young man who goes through struggles with choosing the dangerous life if a privitative Jesuit or becoming a writer who will change the world with his plays and sonnets.
Miranda- She hopes one day to become a Shakespearean actor like her famous parents until her disastrous performances in her school’s staging of The Taming of the Shrew. Humiliated, Miranda skips the opening night and night party because all she wanted to do is hide.
Stephen Langford- He is known as a Time Warden, who travel through time and has visions that can foretell the future. He is a mysterious man who has many secrets. He is also the fellow cast member who has other plans for Miranda. He steps out the of the backstage to ask Miranda if she would like to meet Shakespeare.
Main Conflict: The main conflict is Kissing Shakespeare was when Miranda thinks that her fellow cast members were total nutcases. But before she could could object Stephen whisks her back to the 16th century in England, the world Stephen's really from.
Quotes: “ As much as it hurts to admit it, I knew he was right. I would love him with all my heart, but in the end, it wouldn’t be enough. I’d long for everything I couldn’t have, and that would kill the love between us. Not right away, but someday”
“Instructing you in the art of love, he was? You did not mention it”
“ This can’t be...We don’t move dead bodies around in carts pulled by oxen in the twenty-first century”
I chose these three quotes because all of them were from major parts of the book with the time period . While reading I felt that these quotes were major and really reflected on the story.
Historical Perspective: ~ Religious issues- There was a glimpses of the religion problems that occured in William Shakespeare’s time wit the Catholic, Protestant, and Puritans.
~ History of Shakespeare’s sonnets- This is the title of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare that covers themes of love, beauty, and mortality that were published in the 16th century.
~ Between the time of 1590 and 1613 Shakespeare wrote at the least 37 plays and collaborated on several others
Success of the book: The overall success of the book for me was decent. The story was a bit rushed and as soon as I would start to understand what was going on, the story flipped and transitioned into something different. With the characters nobody really was my favorite because they had no stand out factor to make me really interested in the journey, although there were parts that made we want to keep reading
Author: Pamela Mingle, a former teacher and librarian, lives in Lakewood, Colorado. She loves to create romantic tales that play out against historical events and always loves to include humor in her stories.Her and husband enjoy travelling to Great Britain and it was when one of those walks that she discovered Houghton Tower which was the setting of Kissing Shakespeare.
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