Saturday, April 24, 2010

William Shakespeare’s Birthday

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William Shakespeare’s Birthday

While we’re busy preoccupying our time with the meanderings of politics, it may be a refreshing moment if we step back and pick up a good book or read a fine play or poetry.

Today, why not take the time to celebrate the 442nd anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest writers in centuries, William Shakespeare born April 23, 1564 and who coincidentally died on the same day in 1616.

‘Twas such a day, that I might escort you to several sites that may be of interests to ye.

Last year, the Supreme Court took on Shakespeare. Namely, Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, and Alito on on the Supreme Court of Illyria’s bench to hear an appeal arising from facts reminiscent of Guantanamo Bay Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

NPR asks, Would Life Be Better If We All Spoke Shakespeare?

All you need to know about Shakespeare in this site includes: his plays, sonnets, theatres, and analysis.


I don’t think there is a British politician who is as big a fan of Shakespeare as Daniel Hannen. He marked the anniversary of the Bard by using Shakespeare to respond to Nick Clegg, the cliche second-coming of Obama’s hopey-changey message, which is much ado about nothing.

Last year MP Hannan also used Shakespeare’s birthday to respond to the European Parliament’s disastrous constitution:

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