CapriUni, you're right about Lear. In high school we got split up into groups and assigned Shakespear plays to do a project with -- my group got Lear and made a movie. We had a blast laughing at all the silly disguises and turned it into kind of a dark comedy.

Whadda ya know, I forgot about that one. My flair for non-performance was established early on... I was the cameraperson :)

Of topic -- why do they insist that you memorize the prologue to Canterbury Tales? Oh please. If we were allowed to read the Wife of Bath, Much Ado is nothing!