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'HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHAKESPEARE!!!
London SE1 ^ | 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at london-se1.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: happybirthday; shakespeare
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To: formercalifornian

He was baptised on the 26th. It is known that it was pretty established tradition to baptise a baby on its third day. This is the accepted date. :)


21 posted on 04/23/2005 5:39:46 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: LauraleeBraswell

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement.


22 posted on 04/23/2005 5:40:52 PM PDT by Temple Owl (19064)
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To: bannie
I've always thought this line from Romeo and Juliet was so poignant:

"Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun."

23 posted on 04/23/2005 5:44:02 PM PDT by LisaMalia
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To: goldstategop

Incredible how the popularity of his work has been sustained. In the course of any given two-year period in New York, you could probably see every one of his plays performed at least once. The towering literary figure of the English language for four centuries and going strong.


24 posted on 04/23/2005 5:51:50 PM PDT by speedy
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To: LisaMalia

They always meet at night: The day divides them. She is always the brightness, and the moon is their "sun."


25 posted on 04/23/2005 5:53:50 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: bannie

"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou her maid art far more fair than she."


26 posted on 04/23/2005 5:58:02 PM PDT by LisaMalia
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To: LisaMalia
9th-graders fall in love with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussy. They have no idea that they are now 53 and 55.

Zeffirelli does a beautiful job of "translation."
27 posted on 04/23/2005 6:07:50 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: bannie

KING HENRY V
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 called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
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 Crispin'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 remember'd.
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 remember'd;
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 accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.


28 posted on 04/23/2005 6:11:50 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (Vote a Straight Republican Ballot. Rid the country of dems. NRA)
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To: Shooter 2.5
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother...

ooooOOOooooo.

30 posted on 04/23/2005 6:19:25 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: bannie
9th-graders fall in love with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussy. They have no idea that they are now 53 and 55.

Yes, I fell in love with Leonard Whiting back when Zeffirelli's film first came out. I bought the 33 1/3 soundtrack which had the dialog of the movie. I think I was in the 9th grade at the time, and I memorized most of the lines from the movie. I still love to watch it (my son got the DVD for me last Christmas), and can still recite almost the entire film.

Thanks to Zeffirelli, Shakespeare's other works became interesting to me as well.

31 posted on 04/23/2005 6:21:40 PM PDT by LisaMalia
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To: LisaMalia

I was a sophomore!! I can still feel warm and fuzzy when I see the movie. He's a generational cohort, so--even now--I don't see him as too young to adore.

:)


32 posted on 04/23/2005 6:27:22 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: bannie

"God for Harry, England, and St. George !!!"


33 posted on 04/23/2005 6:32:18 PM PDT by Armigerous ( Non permitte illegitimi te carborundum- "Don't let the bastards grind you down")
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To: puligny-montrachet

I lean towards de Vere but the mention of his name tends to bring out the beast in some people.


34 posted on 04/23/2005 6:32:34 PM PDT by CaptainK
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To: CaptainK

I trend toward Francis Bacon.


35 posted on 04/24/2005 12:39:22 AM PDT by Tulsa Brian (Kung fu movies are like porn. There's 1 on 1, then 2 on 1, then a group scene...)
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To: LauraleeBraswell
"It's outdated and not contemporary."

Marilyn Manson is contemporary. Do you prefer him?

36 posted on 04/24/2005 12:50:22 AM PDT by blackbart.223
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To: blackbart.223


Marilyn Manson should jump off a cliff.


37 posted on 04/24/2005 4:29:06 AM PDT by LauraleeBraswell ( We must stand behind TOM DELAY!)
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To: bannie

Sonnet 54

O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade;
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall vade, my verse distils your truth.


38 posted on 04/24/2005 4:48:05 AM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: LauraleeBraswell
"Marilyn Manson should jump off a cliff."

I'd pay to watch.

39 posted on 04/24/2005 2:36:12 PM PDT by blackbart.223
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To: bannie
One of my favorites...

SONNET 54 by William Shakespeare

O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade,
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.

40 posted on 04/24/2005 2:50:09 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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