Apparently it's a big deal.

I don't care but you should?

Who?

Yep, on his birthday, after eating bad fish.



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Bill Braskie

Yes everybody should celebrate greatness even if it's not your bag.

Or you could just carry one watching the kardasians or whatever floats your boat

I care more about a member giving another member advice that his thread protector is worthless and insinuating that he may as well throw it away because he threw his away.

But they made me memorize and recite that stuff.

How dare they!

A Mid Summers Night Dream?

That kicked ass.

Oh, that Duke of Athens, crazy mo fucker there.

Sure!  The Elizabethans staged the modern world for us.





 

I was wondering why he stopped returning my calls.

A lot of deaths in the news lately.

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

"As she was untrue to me, so shall she be untrue to thee."

Once more unto the beach, dear friends.

-William Shakespeare, Spring Break 1599

He helped change the world and make it a better place.

To care or not to care - that is the question.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark.

Why?

How exactly?

The man could write.

St. Crispen's Day Speech
William Shakespeare, 1599
                          Enter the KING
WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here
    But one ten thousand of those men in England
    That do no work to-day!
 
KING. What's he that wishes so?
    My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
    If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
    To do our country loss; and if to live,
    The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
    God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
    By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
    Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
    It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
    Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
    But if it be a sin to covet honour,
    I am the most offending soul alive.
    No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
    God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
    As one man more methinks would share from me
    For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
    Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
    That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
    Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
    And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
    We would not die in that man's company
    That fears his fellowship to die with us.
    This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
    He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
    Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
    And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
    He that shall live this day, and see old age,
    Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
    And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
    Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
    And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
    Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
    But he'll remember, with advantages,
    What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
    Familiar in his mouth as household words-
    Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
    Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
    Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
    This story shall the good man teach his son;
    And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
    From this day to the ending of the world,
    But we in it shall be remembered-
    We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
    Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
    This day shall gentle his condition;
    And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
    Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
    That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

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Dost thou not give zero fucks, OP?

Words and shit, duh.

Most of his work is just so cliché.

He is missing the Watchathon.

The guy who took credit for all those plays that woman wrote.



 

"How full of scorpions is my mind..."

And without Shakespeare there'd be no Titus Andromedon or Coriolanus Burt..

I love the last 2 lines of this










































He's talking about virtue and people, corruption.  I think there's a lot in Shakespeare that goes over my head.  The play I've seen the most is Hamlet and I keep realizing or seeing stuff I never caught the last time I watched it.






 

It does for sure.  And if you have aging parents or grandparents, "King Lear" may strike a resonant chord.

If we offend it is with our goodwill....

second best bed

but first lets kill all the lawyers

I see what you did there.

Rest in Peace dear bard, for alas,
Providence may no longer find thee,
Reposed  within the core of our Humanities

Let us rather Hold fast the mortal  sword, and like good men bestride our down fallen birthdom.

Zounds

Damn, I missed the funeral and the whole thing. Do you think a card would be appropriate, or just don't do anything?

There are more things in Heaven and Earth Horatio, than are dreamt of in your Philosophy.

He was a great composer.... His music was and still is awesome!

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?

 
One of my favorite scenes from Man Down. Little bit of Shakespeare thrown in.

OP is so edgy.

To discredit a guy that is one of the most significant cultural contributors of western civilization over the past 500 years says more about the person making such statements than about WS.

I may be a bit based though. I had the opportunity to train with the Royal Shakespeare Company while living in England. It truly opened my eyes to his brilliance on a whole different level.