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'HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHAKESPEARE!!!
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| 23 April 2005
| James Hatts
Posted on 04/23/2005 4:58:03 PM PDT by bannie
St George's Day and Shakespeare's Birthday were celebrated in Southwark with a range of events centred around Shakespeare's Globe.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: happybirthday; shakespeare
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I know that this must have been posted in SOME form today; but I couldn't find anything in my search.
BTW: It's also the anniversary of the day he died in 1616--when he was 52. He died of a "feaver of unknown origin."
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posted on
04/23/2005 4:58:06 PM PDT
by
bannie
To: bannie
Glad to see someone besides myself observes this day. I also believe Will wrote his own material.
To: bannie
Thanks for this post. While many people today consider Shakespear high brow, he was actually a man of the people.....even the uneducated paid a penny just to stand in the pit and see his plays! "Those were the days...."
To: Sans-Culotte
He was a great writer, actor and business man! And all of this with a "grammar school" education cut short by his father's loss of position.
:) He's second only to Chaucer!
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:08:51 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: bannie
Greatest Writer Of All Time Bump!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:10:10 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: bannie
Err... Shakespeare is the greatest English writer and the greatest writer in world literature. Every one else lives in his shadow.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:11:20 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop; Sans-Culotte; bannie
William Shake spear is ridiculously over rated. Many of his plays had sexual innuendo that at the time people could pick up on and laugh at. But old English is not our language. It's outdated and not contemporary.
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:21:26 PM PDT
by
LauraleeBraswell
( We must stand behind TOM DELAY!)
To: LauraleeBraswell
Old english is just terribly unusued.
If you read the KJV bible enough, you pick up on definitions and meanings.
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:22:51 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(If Con is the opposite of Pro, what is the opposite of Progress?)
To: Crazieman
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:23:12 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(If Con is the opposite of Pro, what is the opposite of Progress?)
To: bannie
St George's Day and Shakespeare's Birthday were celebrated in Southwark I need a new prescription on my trifocals. I thought it said, "SouthPARK"...
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:26:48 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)
To: LauraleeBraswell
Isaac Asimov wrote that one of the reasons English still reads like a 16th language is that modernizing it too radically would mean we could no longer comprehend Shakespeare. So he acted as a brake on the development of English. This is striking since by Shakespeare's day, Chaucer's Middle English was already obsolete. No one today understands Chaucer without translation but everyone "gets" Shakespeare even if the meanings of some words have changed with the passage of time. Next to the KJB, the greatest cultural and literary influence on the thought of English-speaking peoples has been Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. They have a universality that defy their time and place.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:28:51 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: LauraleeBraswell
It's not Old English: It's Early Modern English. Chaucer is Middle English. Old English is way out of my arena!
Shakespeare, however, is as plain as artistic poetry. After studying the story, 9th-graders should be able understand the meaning of Romeo and Juliet, as it is acted out. It takes work; but it's beauty is worth it! (I don't think he's overrated!)
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:33:08 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: LauraleeBraswell
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:33:26 PM PDT
by
gingerky
To: Old Sarge
"Get thee back to the scullery, and preparest thou some pie!"
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:33:32 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(In for a penny, in for a pound, saddlin' up and Baghdad-bound!)
To: LauraleeBraswell
Many of his plays had sexual It must run in the family.
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:34:28 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(ASA Vet is a distant cousin of Bill Shakespeare.)
To: goldstategop
(English majors can understand
Canterbury Tales)
Methinks that, like anything else, things you don't understand are not interesting. Once you take the time to understand it, it can be delightful! AND it can open up many new interests.
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:36:19 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: bannie
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
My favorite lines from Sonnet 18.
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:37:06 PM PDT
by
gingerky
To: Lutonian
I think the date is actually his baptismal date. He could have been born then since some were baptised at birth, but we don't know.
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:37:26 PM PDT
by
formercalifornian
(Libs worst nightmare: Rehnquist creeps out from shadows at inauguration)
To: goldstategop
AND Shakespeare coined many of our every-day words!
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:37:48 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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