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To celebrate #ShakespeareDay and #WorldBookDay, 'A Vorpal Blade: a review of 'Shakespeare’s Sword' by Alan Judd. #Bookstodon https://calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/sword/

There was this king sitted in his garden all alane
When his brother in his ear poured a little bit o’ henbane,
Stole his brother’s crown and his money and his widow;
But the dead king walked and got his son and said, “Hey listen, kiddo…”

—Adam McNaughtan sings “Oor Hamlet: : a tragedy in 3 minutes”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPclD-m64Tg

#Scottish #literature #song #humour #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay #Hamlet

Happy Shakespeare Day!

"It’s thought that [William Shakespeare] created or introduced us to 1,700 words – from alligator right through to zany."

https://englishonline.britishcouncil.org/blog/articles/a-closer-look-at-everyday-words-shakespeare-invented/

#WilliamShakespeare #ShakespeareDay #language #history

Happy Shakespeare Day!

"It’s thought that [William Shakespeare] created or introduced us to 1,700 words – from alligator right through to zany."

https://englishonline.britishcouncil.org/blog/articles/a-closer-look-at-everyday-words-shakespeare-invented/

#WilliamShakespeare #ShakespeareDay #language #history

Happy Shakespeare Day!

"It’s thought that [William Shakespeare] created or introduced us to 1,700 words – from alligator right through to zany."

https://englishonline.britishcouncil.org/blog/articles/a-closer-look-at-everyday-words-shakespeare-invented/

#WilliamShakespeare #ShakespeareDay #language #history

Happy Shakespeare Day!

"It’s thought that [William Shakespeare] created or introduced us to 1,700 words – from alligator right through to zany."

https://englishonline.britishcouncil.org/blog/articles/a-closer-look-at-everyday-words-shakespeare-invented/

#WilliamShakespeare #ShakespeareDay #language #history

Happy Shakespeare Day!

"It’s thought that [William Shakespeare] created or introduced us to 1,700 words – from alligator right through to zany."

https://englishonline.britishcouncil.org/blog/articles/a-closer-look-at-everyday-words-shakespeare-invented/

#WilliamShakespeare #ShakespeareDay #language #history

When the sun was white and wintry and drained of energy
Macbeth met the witches under the rim of the sky…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “Macbeth and the Witches”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/deer-on-the-high-hills/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay #Macbeth

“William Shakespeare was a powerful influence on Robert Burns… I count as many as 16 references to Shakespeare’s plays in his poetry”

—Prof Gerard Carruthers on the links & commonalities between Robert Burns & William Shakespeare

https://theconversation.com/haggis-neeps-and-soliloquys-the-bonds-that-tie-robert-burns-and-shakespeare-53578/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #drama #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay

Sir Ian McKellen reads Edwin Morgan’s “Instructions to an Actor” – in which Shakespeare gives instructions to the boy actor playing Hermione in THE WINTER’S TALE (recorded 1979)

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https://www.tumblr.com/catullus101/653524303372042242/ian-mckellen-reads-edwin-morgans-poem

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #theatre #acting #IanMcKellen #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay #TheWintersTale

Sir Ian McKellen reads Edwin Morgan’s “Instructions to an Actor” – in which Shakespeare gives instructions to the boy actor playing Hermione in THE WINTER’S TALE (recorded 1979)

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https://www.tumblr.com/catullus101/653524303372042242/ian-mckellen-reads-edwin-morgans-poem

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #theatre #acting #IanMcKellen #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay #TheWintersTale

Sir Ian McKellen reads Edwin Morgan’s “Instructions to an Actor” – in which Shakespeare gives instructions to the boy actor playing Hermione in THE WINTER’S TALE (recorded 1979)

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https://www.tumblr.com/catullus101/653524303372042242/ian-mckellen-reads-edwin-morgans-poem

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #theatre #acting #IanMcKellen #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay #TheWintersTale

Sir Ian McKellen reads Edwin Morgan’s “Instructions to an Actor” – in which Shakespeare gives instructions to the boy actor playing Hermione in THE WINTER’S TALE (recorded 1979)

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https://www.tumblr.com/catullus101/653524303372042242/ian-mckellen-reads-edwin-morgans-poem

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #theatre #acting #IanMcKellen #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay #TheWintersTale

Sir Ian McKellen reads Edwin Morgan’s “Instructions to an Actor” – in which Shakespeare gives instructions to the boy actor playing Hermione in THE WINTER’S TALE (recorded 1979)

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https://www.tumblr.com/catullus101/653524303372042242/ian-mckellen-reads-edwin-morgans-poem

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EdwinMorgan #theatre #acting #IanMcKellen #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay #TheWintersTale

For Shakespeare’s (probable) birthday: Edwin Morgan’s “Instructions to an Actor”, from Collected Poems (Carcanet 2012)

“This single poem gets, via the heart of all theatre, to the heart of the communal in all the arts, and to the heart of form, the heart of voice and silence and to the heart of a kind of life that will never actually stop.”
—Ali Smith, in From Saturn to Glasgow: fifty favourite poems by Edwin Morgan

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #theatre #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay

Happy Shakespeare Day! 🎭
William Shakespeare was (possibly) born today in 1564 & died today in 1616.
"The Nursery of Shakespeare" by master of the Gothic Henry Fuseli – engraved by Moses Haughton II in 1810 – shows the Bard surrounded Tragedy & Comedy.
🎨 Art Institute of Chicago
#ShakespeareDay

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” ~ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

#ShakespeareDay #bloomscrolling #bees #BeKind #NaturePhotography #PartialToPink #SolaceInNature #DelightOverDarkness

“William Shakespeare was a powerful influence on Robert Burns… I count as many as 16 references to Shakespeare’s plays in his poetry”

—Prof Gerard Carruthers on the links & commonalities between Burns & Shakespeare

https://theconversation.com/haggis-neeps-and-soliloquys-the-bonds-that-tie-robert-burns-and-shakespeare-53578/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #drama #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay

Timed to Shakespeare Day, Joe Quesada and Amazing Comics Announce Undiscover’d, A New Line of Comic Books Based on the Plays of the Bard #comics #comicbooks #undiscoverd #shakespeare #shakespeareday

https://graphicpolicy.com/2025/04/23/timed-to-shakespeare-day-joe-quesada-and-amazing-comics-announce-undiscoverd-a-new-line-of-comic-books-based-on-the-plays-of-the-bard/

Happy #ShakespeareDay! Why not celebrate by making it Weird – with our video about the history of that word, and its connections to Fate, Shakespeare, and witches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYPoTrHTXVQ

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Shakespeare #Weird

There was this king sitted in his garden all alane
When his brother in his ear poured a little bit o’ henbane,
Stole his brother’s crown and his money and his widow;
But the dead king walked and got his son and said, “Hey listen, kiddo…”

—Adam McNaughtan, “Oor Hamlet”: a tragedy in 3 minutes

Adam McNaughtan sings “Oor Hamlet”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPclD-m64Tg

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #song #drama #tragedy #Hamlet #humour #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay

Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
"Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage"
#Shakespeare #Shakespeareday
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/apr/23/shakespeare-did-not-leave-his-wife-anne-in-stratford-letter-fragment-suggests

When the red kite builds, look to your lesser linen…” Happy #ShakespeareDay everyone! xx

#birds #shakespeare #nature #london #theatre #handmade #art #posterdesign #wallart

Happy #ShakespeareDay! Why not celebrate by making it Weird – with our video about the history of that word, and its connections to Fate, Shakespeare, and witches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYPoTrHTXVQ

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Shakespeare #Weird

“William Shakespeare was a powerful influence on Robert Burns. If the latter exemplified certain Scottish literary and cultural traditions, he did so with Shakespeare in his DNA. In his letters, Burns turns to Shakespeare on several dozen occasions. I also count as many as 16 references to Shakespeare’s plays in his poetry.”

—Prof Gerard Carruthers on the links & commonalities between #RobertBurns & #Shakespeare

#Scottish #literature #poetry #ShakespeareDay

https://theconversation.com/haggis-neeps-and-soliloquys-the-bonds-that-tie-robert-burns-and-shakespeare-53578/

“This poem gets, via the heart of all theatre, to the heart of the communal in all the arts, and to the heart of form, the heart of voice and silence and to the heart of a kind of life that will never actually stop”
—Ali Smith

#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay

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Listen to Ian McKellen read Edwin Morgan’s “Instructions to an Actor”, in which Shakespeare gives instructions to the boy actor playing Hermione in THE WINTER’S TALE:

https://www.tumblr.com/catullus101/653524303372042242/ian-mckellen-reads-edwin-morgans-poem

Now, boy, remember this is the great scene.
You’ll stand on a pedestal behind a curtain,
the curtain will be drawn, and then you don’t move
for eighty lines; don’t move, don’t speak, don’t breathe.
I’ll stun them all out there, I’ll scare them,
make them weep, but it depends on you…

—Edwin Morgan, “Instructions to an Actor”

#Scottish #literature #poetry #EdwinMorgan #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay

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Doing it old school tonight.
#shakespearesunday #shakespearebirthday #shakespeare #ShakespeareDay

Celebrate William Shakespeare's birthday today! The Bard was oft inspired by commedia dell'arte so we sometimes like to incorporate some Shakespearian gags into our productions. As a prelude to Flaminio Scala's "The Lady Who Was Believed Dead" we crafted a few scenes heavily riffing on the similarily themed "Romeo & Juliet". Two years we staged this socially distanced in short one-minute scenes. Catch it here for National Shakespeare Day!

Watch here: https://bit.ly/3pyywlv

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #Shakespeare #WilliamShakespeare #ShakespeareDay #RomeoAndJuliet

“Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.”
#williamshakespeare #shakespeare #ShakespeareDay #shakespearesunday #gop #maga #Trump #desantis

Happy #ShakespeareDay! Why not celebrate by making it Weird – with our video about the history of that word, and its connections to Fate, Shakespeare, and witches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYPoTrHTXVQ

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Shakespeare #Weird

Happy birthday, Bard! 🎭
William Shakespeare was (possibly) born today in 1564, and also died on St George's Day in 1616.
🎨 Statue by Otto Lessing (1902), Park on the Ilm, Weimar.
#ShakespearesBirthday #ShakespeareSunday #ShakespeareDay

It has been 400 years since the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio collection. Without it, 18 of his plays that had not previously been printed would have been lost, among them Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night and The Tempest.

https://theconversation.com/shakespeares-first-folio-turns-400-what-would-be-lost-without-the-collection-an-expert-speculates-202998

#ShakespeareDay

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