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

http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/248954/the-shakespeare-sentence-that-changed-my-writing-and-can-change-yours-draft/

If Shakespeare had written Star Wars

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/07/william-shakespeare-star-wars/?utm_content=buffer5318f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

13 everyday phrases that came from Shakespeare

http://www.businessinsider.com/shakespeare-450th-birthday-everyday-phrases-2014-4

45 everyday phrases that Shakespeare coined

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/23/shakespeare-450-birthday-phrases_n_5197369.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday: 50 everyday phrases that came from the Bard

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/william-shakespeares-450th-birthday-50-everyday-phrases-that-came-from-the-bard-9275254.html?utm_content=buffer1b7e1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/was-shakespeare-aware-scientific-discoveries-his-time-180951198/?utm_source=twitter.com&no-ist

Was Shakespeare an atheist? Or more of a secular humanist?

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/04/shakespeare_and_atheism_what_his_works_tell_us_about_the_playwright_s_religious.html

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

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/04-2014/the-year-of-lear-how-a-400-year-old-tragedy-became_68346.html

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

http://goodticklebrain.com