Toddler Reciting Shakespeare And More Babies Doing Adult Things (VIDEO)(PHOTOS)

Some toddlers learn their ABCs and 123s. Others study British lit. Or, at least this one does. In the video above, our new favorite thespian recites the whole of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18. His sister giggles (stunned perhaps) in the background, but eventually grabs her moment in the spotlight to correct her little brother who botched a line. (via Babble)

Elsewhere on the Interwebs, actor Brian Cox schools this 2-year-old in "To be or not to be?" Both videos prove the theory that it's always entertaining to see little kids doing grown-up things. And, drama isn't the only thing this sentiment holds true for...

UPDATE: This video has been removed.

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[playsindirt]

10:34 AM on 03/17/2012

My kid used to do this when he was 2 or 3 (recite from memory long passages or even entire books) and I thought it was really great, he was genius, yada, yada, yada. And then we found out he was autistic. Sometimes these odd abilities aren't a good thing.

[lensamy]

09:13 AM on 03/17/2012

Awww, so cute! Is amazing what a kid around that age can do. My mom and dad were college professor and basically they started teaching us stuff since we were literally a few month old. My mom has a couple of video of me having almost a normal conversations, when i was just over a year old. In one of them she was asking me to called her mom and not by her name. I smiled and I was like " Nah! yourr Matilda!

[artist-53]

09:05 AM on 03/17/2012

If the video has been removed, then so too should the article. Otherwise, what's the purpose?

[PizzamanBiz]

09:57 AM on 03/17/2012

Highly trained Huffpo staff strike again

[sabelmouse]

10:23 AM on 03/17/2012

to make us go to it and write a comment.it looks good to the advertisers.

[artist-53]

10:45 AM on 03/17/2012

I think it's an idiot test of sorts;-)

[AdmireBucs]

06:54 AM on 03/17/2012

Almost is not good enough:P

[MRB55]

03:30 AM on 03/17/2012

The video's been removed why the hell is the post even here?

[breakingpoint]

02:48 AM on 03/17/2012

so much better and healthier than tots and tiaras and Disney and computer games and most of the modern culture junk shoved down kid's throats

[hruss1125]

01:19 AM on 03/17/2012

Cutie pie.

[VanTroi]

01:16 AM on 03/17/2012

Wow he is smart! And so cute!

[peegan]

12:44 AM on 03/17/2012

video....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gVoz-HBcMg

[DanaLane]

06:29 AM on 03/17/2012

Thanks for sharing that link! That kid is amazing.

[kokuaguy]

12:37 AM on 03/17/2012

Scroll down for a working YouTube video link.

[kokuaguy]

12:36 AM on 03/17/2012

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee

[eXpresso]

12:16 AM on 03/17/2012

scroll down for working link to video

[dyldrix]

12:15 AM on 03/17/2012

I know it's wrong, and I will be attacked for it, as I should be...but, SERIOUSLY, my kid is way cuter then these kids....how I got so lucky, I don't know

[VanTroi]

01:15 AM on 03/17/2012

This isn't a contest

[dyldrix]

10:03 PM on 03/17/2012

true.....but if it was............................

[eXpresso]

03:10 AM on 03/17/2012

that's nice.
could they recite Shakespeare at age 2?
then you'd be really lucky

[dyldrix]

09:58 PM on 03/17/2012

not 2 yet...so I'll have to get back to you. She rocks the sign language though...so...

[JCleveland]

12:08 AM on 03/17/2012

No longer available :(

[Ami Munro]

11:41 PM on 03/16/2012

That was so cute. Smart kids.