Yes! you heard it here first! Perhaps the most stupid addition yet to the so called “authorship debate”, (although I think Queen Elizabeth I is still the dumbest theory) Shakespeare was Italian. This idea is put forward of course by an Italian. If you really can be bothered visit http://shakespeare.about.com for this ground breaking rubbish.
April 2006
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Mon 24 Apr 2006
Sun 23 Apr 2006
More Shakespeare news… A new walk opens today between Stratford-Upon-Avon and Shakespeare’s Globe in London. It tries to follow as closely as possible a route Shakespeare might have taken to London. It looks fantastic and I do intend to walk this after the season but maybe I will lie on a beach somewhere first. For more details visit www.shakespearesway.org
Sun 23 Apr 2006
Happy 442nd Birthday to William Shakespeare an ordinary man that changed the world with words. Please sign our campaign to make the 23rd April National Shakespeare Day.
Ben Jonson (1573-1637) called him “Sweet Swan of Avon!” and said “He was not of an age, but for all time!”
But here are some more quotes on the great Bard.
Wed 19 Apr 2006
William Shakespeare was born on the 23rd April 1564 and died on 23rd April 1616. William Shakespeare is recognised across the world as the greatest literary mind in the history of the planet. William Shakespeare is probably the most famous human being to have walked the face of the Earth.
Should we not have a day to recognise this home grown genius? We are calling on the government to make the 23rd April Shakespeare Day.
See our special page, send your name and email address and it will be forwarded to Tony Blair as part of our campaign for a National Shakespeare Day to recognise the genius of William Shakespeare.
Mon 17 Apr 2006
This has to one of the strangest Shakespearian thing I have ever seen. This is The Beatles, yes The Beatles performing Pyramus and Thisbe from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Amazingly they are almost word perfect so if they are not using prompt boards they must have put in around a weeks rehearsal.
Sun 16 Apr 2006
Here is Kirkstall Abbey and the Leeds Shakespeare Festival as seen from space. It must have been taken just before a performance of Romeo and Juliet in 2002 as I recognise the set. Found at Google Earth. You can clearly see the stage, actors and the canopy over the audience seats. Judging the angle of shadows - it must have been early evening. This is how alien races are able to keep up with the very best in Shakesperian theatre.