Bard Day celebration offers much to read about
It’s Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, more or less, and all of Twitter is a stage for stories about the immortal one.
There is no time for me to read of Shakespeare morning until night, so I created a list of links pulled from Twitter today for your leisurely reading enjoyment, The first one is my own, so I may be a poor jurist. But all the others I have read or intend to read.
Shakespeare’s plays: Timeless, or full of anachronisms?
https://www.copyediting.com/shakespeares-plays-were-full-anachronisms
The Shakespeare sentence that changed my writing – and can change yours
If Shakespeare had written Star Wars
13 everyday phrases that came from Shakespeare
http://www.businessinsider.com/shakespeare-450th-birthday-everyday-phrases-2014-4
45 everyday phrases that Shakespeare coined
William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday: 50 everyday phrases that came from the Bard
20 great Shakespearean insults
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/22/william-shakespeare-insults_n_3132259.html
6 words from Shakespeare for 2014
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/six-words-from-shakespeare-for-2014/
Was Shakespeare aware of the scientific discoveries of his time?
Was Shakespeare an atheist? Or more of a secular humanist?
Shakespeare the magazine
http://issuu.com/shakespearemagazine/docs/shakespeare_magazine_01
As Shakespeare Turns 450, ‘Hamlet’ Tour Makes The World A Stage
http://www.npr.org/2014/04/23/305897405/as-shakespeare-turns-450-hamlet-tour-makes-the-world-a-stage
The year of Lear in New York theater
Why Shakespeare belongs in prison
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/why-shakespeare-belongs-in-prison/361052/
Shakespeare’s Unconventional Conventions
http://dictionary.reference.com/slideshows/shakespeare-conventions#iambic-pentameter
The Myth of Shakespeare: What is the true preeminence of The Bard?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117488/william-shakespeare-birthday
The books we wouldn’t have had without Shakespeare
http://www.bookish.com/articles/the-books-we-wouldnt-have-without-shakespeare
23 things you didn’t know about Shakespeare
http://www.buzzfeed.com/simoncrerar/things-you-did-not-know-about-william-shakespeare?bftw=
I present to thee 23 ways to celebrate Mr. Shakespeare’s Birthday.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/sedem/happy-450th-birthday-shakespeare-cjrb
10 Shakespeare plays as Sun covers
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/10-shakespeare-plays-as-sun-front-covers
Will power: Shakespeare Flipboard
https://flipboard.com/section/will-power-bOb5fn
All Shakespeare’s plays in three-panel comics
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/do-you-want-to-see-all-of-shakespeares-plays-in-three-panel
And more comics
Why the birth of Shakespeare is the birth of modern art
How well do you know Shakespeare’s plays?
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/04/quiz-shakespeare-plays/
Beat the Bard! Shakespeare’s characters fight it out in our interactive game
What is up with thy, thou, thee and thine?
http://www.theyuniversity.net/post/83652518187/what-is-up-with-thy-thou-thee-and-thine
The 10 essential screen adaptations
http://www.wordandfilm.com/2014/04/shakespeare-450-years-later-the-10-essential-screen-adaptations/
Reading Shakespeare without the sex jokes is the real tragedy
Shakespeare: 10 things you didn’t know
The 11 worst couples Shakespeare ever wrote
http://www.swimmingly.com/relationships/couples/the-11-worst-couples-william-shakespeare-ever-wrote/
Reverb: Shakespeare stories
https://helloreverb.com/share/collection/reverb/shakespeare-stories
Top 10 Shakespeare books for children
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/apr/22/top-10-andrew-matthews-shakespeare-books
450 years of Juliets: On women making Shakespeare
http://www.themillions.com/2014/04/450-years-of-juliets-on-women-making-shakespeare.html
Was Shakespeare a good actor?
Shakespeare’s novel neologisms we still use
http://blog.dictionary.com/shakespeare/
William Shakespeare, short and tweet
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2014/04/23/shakespeare_tweets.html
Incony questrists: Shakespeare’s ‘rare ornaments’ of the English language
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/04/shakespeare-language/
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