[sodpoodle]

Just thought it was interesting and sad.

[Tax-chick]

The Wall Street Journal has had articles on Shakespeare regularly in the last couple of months.

[SamAdams76]

Google has a doodle on this.

[manc]

interesting that he died on the day called St Georges day which is like paddies day in Ireland.

[PIF]

He was an old man in his time.

[Buttons12]

Cervantes died that day too.
Nobody’s really sure about Shakespeare’s birth date, they assume it from the baptismal date, iirc.

[Vermont Lt]

In 1616, one could be healthy today...and dead within a week. 56 was pretty good back then.

As I walked around cemeteries in New England there were lots of folks dead in their thirties. And some that lasted into their eighties. That’s was hard living will do to you.

[CaptainMorgantown]

In honor of Shakespeare’s death, I’m sleeping in my second best bed tonight.

[samtheman]

He died within a month of signing his will, a document which he begins by describing himself as being in “perfect health”.

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He claimed to be in good health but friends noticed he made 4 visits to Walgreens in the last week of his life, presumably filling prescriptions.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Wondering if this notable date has been reported in the MSM, seeing as how they are all students of literature/s

I don't think literature is on the syllabus of the "Columbia School of Broadcasting" where most of the MSM hacks matriculated.

[Larry Lucido]

Alas, poor William.

[Gratia]

Very doubtful that the man from Stratford was the author of the Shakespeare opus all by himself, or even in part by him.

It really doesn’t matter in a sense, what we have we have.

But Shakespeare’s “life” is interesting because there appears to be so little of it we know, and what we know is not compatible with the breadth and depth of the plays, which suggest collaboration.

[meadsjn]

See? People were dying 400 years ago too. It didn’t just start with Prince.

[Huskrrrr]

He hath passed on, James.

[castlegreyskull]

The 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward De Vere did not die in 1616.

[Verginius Rufus]

April 23, 1616, is his date of death in the Julian calendar. By the Gregorian calendar (the one we use now--then already in use in much of Europe but not in England), he died on May 3, 1616.

Cervantes' death is usually reported as April 23, 1616 (Gregorian calendar), but apparently it is now thought he died on April 22--the burial was on April 23.

[Albion Wilde]

Another most interesting thread from earlier today, where people posted their favorite lines, vocabulary, stanzas, etc:

Post Your William Shakespeare Observations