This is freaky. Yesterday, i didn't know it was his birthday, but I was making up a song based on Hamlet. Once, I was auditioning for a production of Grease, and I recited the epilogue from The Tempest. Has anyone read The Wednesday Wars? Really good book, with Shakespeare in it.

I haven't read "The Wednesday Wars" but I know it's at the library. Maybe I should get it out.

Cool! I didn't know that. I've had to read Hamlet and Richard III for the literature/composition class I take at a homeschool co-op, and I've memorized a couple of his sonnets and the "To be or not to be" and "Now is the winter of our discontent" monologues. Shakespeare is awesome! Happy birthday!

-Emily

I was in a production of "As You Like It" as Jaques--he's the one who does the "All the world's a stage..." speech! I still remember quite a bit of it. It's loooong... in that scene, pretty much the only thing Jaques does is make speeches--in the beginning I run on shouting about a fool I met in the forest, and do a whole thing on that...phew! It was a lot to memorize!!!:):)

This is my favorite Shakespeare poem. I think it fits, what with the bit about April and all.

From you I have been absent in the spring,

When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,

Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,

That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him,

Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell,

Of different flowers in odor and in hue,

Could make me any summer's story tell,

Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew.

Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,

Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;

They were but sweet, but figures of delight,

Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. 

Yet seemed it winter still, and, you away,

As with your shadow I with these did play.

I was in a Shakespeare group a while ago. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' or something like that.

Hi, Annie!