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.....or What You Will!!! Today!!! Did I spell Shakesphere wrong? Shakespeare 
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I was going to dress up as him and spend the day in my local, problem is I'm bard
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.....or What You Will!!! Today!!! Did I spell Shakesphere wrong? Shakespeare
Yes. And anniversary.
Good to see that the English Language is in safe hands.
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He probably couldn't give a Puck about that.
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You come not to praise Shakespeare, but to mis-spell him.
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isnt it also the aniversary of his birth as well then?
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He's always been a bit of a Tit-ania one could see that
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A load of it is made up; they know he was born roughly around this date as there is the registration of his christening, but they don't know exactly when. And it makes a nice story to think that he was born on the same day that he died.
I used to work at Shakespeares birthplace and we'd get loads of annoying tourists (mainly Americans) asking difficult questions; and we were basically told if you don't know the answer make it up! There would always be the occasional person that would come round and say 'but Shakespeare never wrote any of his plays did he' which always made for an interesting debate.
I used to work at Shakespeares birthplace and we'd get loads of annoying tourists (mainly Americans) asking difficult questions; and we were basically told if you don't know the answer make it up! There would always be the occasional person that would come round and say 'but Shakespeare never wrote any of his plays did he' which always made for an interesting debate.
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O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire
Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,
The flat unraised spirits that have dared
On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object: can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
Within this wooden O the very casques
That did affright the air at Agincourt?
O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
Attest in little place a million;
And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,
On your imaginary forces work.
Suppose within the girdle of these walls
Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:
Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;
Into a thousand parts divide on man,
And make imaginary puissance;
Think when we talk of horses, that you see them
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;
For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,
Turning the accomplishment of many years
Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,
Admit me Chorus to this history;
Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,
Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire
Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,
The flat unraised spirits that have dared
On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object: can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
Within this wooden O the very casques
That did affright the air at Agincourt?
O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
Attest in little place a million;
And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,
On your imaginary forces work.
Suppose within the girdle of these walls
Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:
Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;
Into a thousand parts divide on man,
And make imaginary puissance;
Think when we talk of horses, that you see them
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;
For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,
Turning the accomplishment of many years
Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,
Admit me Chorus to this history;
Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,
Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
There were many spellings of Shakespeare's name in his lifetime; Shakespeare; Shakspere; Shaksper; Shakspear; Shagspere and some others but Shakespeare was by far the most common. It should also be noted that the man himself spelled his name in different ways.
As Sten Super has pointed out (and I mentioned on another thread), no-one knows when Shakespeare was born but we know it was somewhere around 23 April.
Just for today, a Shakespeare quiz question. Which Shakespearean character really did die on his own birthday?
Oh, and here's another; which well-known literary figure died on exactly the same day as Shakespeare? (OK, that's two questions)