Happy Birthday to Shakespeare

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<p>Good morning all.</p>

<p>I hope you join the festivities to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday! He’s 344 years old!</p>

<p>I hear it’s raining in London (D is there), and she tells me there are twenty street festivals in his honor and a big patriotic celebration in Trafalgar Square.</p>

<p>But I say, Shakespeare belongs to the people! The Brits can’t have all the fun. ABTW: American English of the Northeast closer to Shakespeare’s pronunciation than modern British English. So there.</p>

<p>“These are the things that dreams are made of.”</p>

<p>Enjoy!</p>

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<p>“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”</p>

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<p>Nope. More like 444 years old.</p>

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<p>Yesterday was Kant’s 284th birthday!</p>

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<p>We were talking about it being Shakespeare’s birthday (and anniv. of his death) this morning. In college I had a huge poster of old Bill that I used to dress up for holidays…santa beard and hat, bunny ears, etc. His birthday was a big deal back then (yes, I was ain incredible nerd.)</p>

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<p>Love that Shakespeare dress-up bit, missypie!</p>

<p>I’m looking for a good, outdoor Shakespeare festival this spring!</p>

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<p>Sonnet 116]</p>

<p>Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. </p>

<p>Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:</p>

<p>O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;</p>

<p>It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.</p>

<p>Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:</p>

<p>Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.</p>

<p>If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.</p>

<p>-Happy Birthday!</p>

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That’s actually for St George’s day, patron saint of England (white flag, red cross is St George’s cross). I don’t think it’s 100% certain which day Shakespeare was born on, but the 23rd April is generally chosen as people like to think the great man shares his day with St George. Havong said that, I bet most people on the street in England have no idea when Shakespeare’s birthday is.</p>