Uncle Bill Shakespeare...Alive and Well!

Horrible Histories - Shakespeare goes to school - CBBC


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James Armytaj reads William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. An... interesting take on loving devotion.

Sonnet 130, William Shakespeare - Valentine's Advent
 
The Taming of the Groundhog: Shakespearean and Modern Views of Relationships (LINK)
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The Shakespeare play “The Taming of the Shrew” deals with male and societal expectations in relationships. Petruchio (one of the main characters) hears about Katherine, that she does not want to get married, and that she is a strong independent woman and is kind of like a “shrew” hence the name of the play. Petruchio is up for the challenge of making Katherine more lady like. He talks to Katherine's dad (Baptista) and hears that there will be a pretty large dowry involved if he marries Katherine since Katherine is already kind of old and Baptista really wants Bianca, his youngest daughter, to get married. Lucentio who is another main male lead character goes to Padua originally to study Philosophy, but sees Bianca and wants to pursue her and stop studying philosophy.

A more modern view of male and societal expectations in relationships is in the movie “Groundhog Day”.

 
"William Valentine "Bill" Shakespeare (September 27, 1912 – January 17, 1974) was an American football player. He played at the halfback position, and also handled punting, for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football teams from 1933 to 1935. He gained his greatest acclaim for throwing the winning touchdown pass as time ran off the clock in Notre Dame's 1935 victory over Ohio State, a game that was voted the best game in the first 100 years of college football. Shakespeare was selected as a consensus first-team All-American in 1935 and was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983. Sharing the same name as "The Bard of Avon", Shakespeare earned nicknames including "The Bard of Staten Island", "The Bard of South Bend", and "The Merchant of Menace."

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"The Merchant of Menace."
 
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Where, When & How Did Playwright William Shakespeare Die? (LINK)

"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S DEATH is as much of a mystery as his life. Was it syphilis, typhoid, influenza, alcohol or drug abuse that caused his death, or a combination of elements? By Ben Arogundade. Sept. 20, 2019."

"So, when, where and how did Shakespeare die? A limited number of facts are known. We know, for example that he died in Stratford-upon-Avon, on April 23, 1616 — his 53rd birthday — and his burial was recorded in the register of the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford."

"Ultimately, perhaps the question of when, where and how William Shakespeare’s died is a combination of some of the aforementioned possibilities, as is often the case. Certainly, the speed of his burial — two days after his death — suggest that Shakespeare died of a contagious disease, and that there was concern about it spreading."

"The only way to know the truth about whether he died as a result of drug or alcohol abuse or an infectious disease would be to exhume his remains. But, fearful of what might have happened to them after his death, the Bard famously had a curse engraved upon his tomb":


"Good frend for Jesus sake forebeare,
To digg the dust encloased heare;
Bleste be the man that spares thes stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones."


WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S SKULL

"But if getting inside William Shakespeare's grave to find out the exact cause of his death is problematic, perhaps we can find out by analysing it from above. In March 2016, a team of archaeologists and geophysicists from Staffordshire University, led by Kevin Colls, used high tech ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to look into the Bard's grave. To their surprise they found that Shakespeare's skull was missing. "

"Their finding gives credence to an 1879 report in The Argosy magazine that stated that Shakespeare's skull had been stolen from his shallow grave, which was barely a metre deep. The team were the first ever to be allowed permission to undertake the non-invasive archaeological investigation. Perhaps soon, further scans may reveal crucial information about exactly how Shakespeare died. “With projects like this, you never really know what you might find,” said Colls."
 
2016
"Prince Charles pays Shakespearean tribute to the Queen The Prince of Wales has broadcast a special Shakespearean tribute to the Queen to celebrate her 90th birthday. Prince Charles read an edited passage from William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII which includes the lines: 'She shall be, to the happiness of England, an aged princess; many days shall see her, and yet no day without a deed to crown it.' He personally chose his reading in consultation with Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company."


Charles chose an extract from a speech by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer to King Henry VIII after the birth of the future Queen Elizabeth I. The reading from act 5, scene 5 (edited) begins:


"Good grows with her! In her days, every man shall eat in safety

Under his own vine, what he plants, and sing

The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours

God shall be truly known, and those about her

From her shall read the perfect ways of honour

And by this claim their greatness, not by blood"

The verse ends:

"She shall be, to the happiness of England,

An aged princess. Many days shall see her,

And yet no day without a deed to crown it"

Full reading (AUDIO) LINK)
 

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