Our summer season is now in full swing. With so much drama going on, perhaps you have neglected to observe all of the wondrful things that July commemorates. To get you caught up before it's too late, William Shakespeare has kindly agreed to be your guide through all of it, from pickles to tickles:

Recreation and Parks Month:

“Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have a play extempore.”

Henry IV, Part 1 : II.iv

National Baked Beans Month:

“…The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.”

Merry Wives of Windsor : III.iv

National Blueberries Month:

“Give you reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plenty as blueberries, I would give no man a reason of compulsion, I.”

Henry IV, Part 1 : II.iv

National Ice Cream Month:

“Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes.”

Richard III : IV.ii

Lasagna Awareness Month:

“Food for powder, food for powder; they’ll fill a pit, as well as better.”

Henry IV, Part 1 : IV.ii

National Culinary Arts Month:

“Come, come, be every one officious To make this banguet; which I wish may prove More stern and blood than the Centaurs’ feast. So, now bring them in, for I’ll play the cook!”

Titus Andronicus : V.ii

National Hot Dog Month:

“I am the dog. No, the dog is himself, and I am the dog. O, the dog is me, and I am myself; ay so,so.

Two Gentlemen of Verona : II.iii

National Picnic Month:

“But that our feasts In every mess have folly, and the feeders Digest it with a custom, I should blush To see you so attired, swoon, I think, To show myself a glass.”

The Winter’s Tale : IV, iv

National Pickle Month:

“A plague o’ these pickle–herring!”

Twelfth Night : I.v

National Vehicle Theft Protection Month:

“The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.”

Much Ado about Nothing : III.iii

National Banana Month:

“Come, madam wife, sit by my side, and let the world slip, we shall ne’er be younger.”

Taming of the Shrew : Induction, ii

National Tickling Month:

“From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth.”

Much Ado about Nothing : III.ii

National Hat Month:

“He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.”

Much Ado about Nothing : I.i

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