More celebrity death

[gillo]

Four hundred years ago this weekend a man died. Other celebrity deaths were an issue then, too - Cervantes died the same year. But the man who died and whose anniversary we celebrate this weekend gave us something little short of a miracle. He embellished the language, he ennobled the stage, and he gave the world the best plays and poetry ever

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[cmcmck]

'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow'...........

[gillo]

Creeps in this petty pace...

[curiouswombat]

...from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

It an example of his staying power that I automatically continued from Chiara and you without having to think of it. We did, of course, do Macbeth at O level.

Looks like a very good class of school trip, that.

[gillo]

Very classy - Compton Verney is lovely, and we got in all free (including the tenner for the exhibition. The Director of the Institute was involved in setting it all up; I suspect a link.)

I did Twelfth Night for O Level, but my friends and I used to do races with the 'Tomorrow and tomorrow' speech. It sticks.

Out, out, brief candle!

[feliciacraft]

Sounds like a wonderful program to celebrate the greatest playwright of all time!

[snogged]

Shakespeare was an amazing asset to the world of theatre.