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| Thalia Pellegrini, presenter, C´óÏó´«Ã½ Newsround.
First performed in Romeo and Juliet aged 14. Love Shakespeare.
Did English at Cambridge and had to read the whole ‘shebang’ - every play.
A struggle at times but just blows me away! Love the tragedies – especially Lear and Hamlet.
Saw an AWFUL production of Macbeth in Regents Park when I was about 15 - lots of blood and bad acting.
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 |  | Names and faces you may know have sent us their Shakespeare memories. Some of them love him, some hate him. Some encounters are rib-tickling.
Jeremy Vine remembers toilet rolls, Shefali Oza dreamt of Hollywood film stars......what about you?
| Ìý |  | ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Jeremy Vine - 'best production was in Stratford'
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Jeremy Vine, presenter, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2 and The Politics Show
" I was Macbeth in the junior school play. During the dress rehearsal, I did the line 'Is this a dagger I see before me?' and someone backstage whispered (as only a 13-year-old can) 'No, it's a toilet roll.'
For some reason this reduced me to 5 minutes of giggling and I got a stern dressing-down from the headmaster, Mr Grange. It went OK on the night.
I love the lines because they're universal. The bit in Julius Caesar that starts 'There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood...' I quoted to myself when I took over from Jimmy Young on Radio 2 because it just seemed to me to be one of those blockbuster moments where events carry you and you have to hope for the best.
Best production was Julius Caesar at the smaller theatre in Stratford because the audience was the crowd and the players moved amongst us in an incredibly involving way.
| Ìý |  | Newsround's Lizzie Greenwood
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Lizzie Greenwood, presenter, C´óÏó´«Ã½ Newsround.
" I studied Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's dream, Othello and briefly Henry V.
I didn't really enjoy Shakespeare at school. At age 11 I found the language strange and clumsy.
Out of all of his plays my favourite is Othello. I went to see Sir Ian Mckellen play Iago at the Young Vic which was cool.
I like the character Puck in A midsummer Night's dream and I really enjoyed seeing that in an Open Air Theatre at a big country house with a picnic.
But I'm not sure if it was the food and setting I liked more than the performance!"
| Ìý |  | Shefali Oza
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Shefali Oza, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Midlands Today.
" I studied the Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet at school.Ìý
Romeo and Juliet - the ultimate tragic love story; Merchant of Venice - an expose on human frailties.Ìý
However, films and plays bring Shakespeare to life for me in a way that no teacher could - too much analysis of his work merely stifled the essence.Ìý
I would have liked to have studied ‘The Taming Of The Shrew’ as advertised so well in the film with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. They captured his passion and brought his words to life."
| Ìý |  | Simon Thomas of Blue Peter with Konnie Huq and Liz Barker
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Simon Thomas, Blue Peter.
"At school I studied King Lear and the Tempest. At first I didn't really understand the language; so wasn't really sure what was going on.Ìý
But we had a great teacher who brought the plays to life through slightly over-dramatic readings of the plays - the moment when King Lear goes mad springs to mind.Ìý
I've seen 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare' by the Reduced Shakespeare Company - absolutely hilarious."
If you'd like to send us your Shakespeare tales e-mail us
warwickshire@bbc.co.uk
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