Read it in one evening. Lots of fun. Fluid, readable.

"Love is blind." We can create that trope of everyday speech to a 25 year old William Shakespeare.

What's with the ending? Dude attempts rape and all is forgiven after he says he's sorry ten seconds afterward? Until that point it was 5 stars; but that's just silliness.

Of course, great jokes:

JULIA

Why not on Proteus, as of all the rest?

LUCETTA

Then thus: of many good I think him best.

JULIA

Your reason?

LUCETTA

I have no other, but a woman's reason;
I think him so because I think him so.



The famous "love is blind:"


SPEED

If you love her, you cannot see her.

VALENTINE

Why?

SPEED

Because Love is blind. O, that you had mine eyes;
or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to
have when you chid at Sir Proteus for going
ungartered!


And, of course, Shakespeare's usual proverb-coining:

were man
But constant, he were perfect. That one error
Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins:
Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.