I majored in English Lit. for my A-levels, BA, and MA, so I've read and watched my fair share of Shakespeare (I saw Alan Cumming inadvertently gob in then-wife Hilary Lyon's hair during a performance of Hamlet at the Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden, and seeing as her character Ophelia was dead at the time, there was nothing she could do about it!).

Living in the UK, you will be forced to read at least one Shakespeare and/or Dickens at some point during your schooling. Dickens' 'Little Dorritt' made me want to