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Today is #ShakespeareDay, the right time to think and reflect. Please read till the end:

"To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them."
April 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
thalamusplank.bsky.social
Happy birthday Shakespeare! 🎈
Celebrate in style and treat yourself (or a friend!) to a very happy unbirthday present! 🎁
Check out the 'Thalamus Plank Shakespeare Collection' at thalamusplank.co.uk or
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April 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
casualwoke.bsky.social
Thank you, Anna. 🤗 Well researched.
I was lucky to live 30 minutes away from Stratford on Avon in the UK to get a necessary monthly dose of The Bard, RSC, Holy Trinity Church, ‘Dirty Duck’, swans, the Avon, and the canals.
Beautiful place!
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April 23, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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April 23, 2026 at 6:00 AM
poetbex.bsky.social
I posted this over on Twitter for @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social's #ShakespeareDay event on the Bard's birthday last Wednesday, so thought I'd share it over here!

I've been teaching Romeo and Juliet for 12 years, so figured the play was finally worth a poem out of me 💀
The Nurse’s Soliloquy Act 5, Scene 3 I have lost this tug-o-war with the Divine. Spent my life in service to higher powers, washed their plates, linen, floors, children. I weaned Susan quickly so I could clutch a Capulet to my breast. I wasn’t there when she died in sweats, was nursing Juliet instead, little sun, mirror daughter. My husband passed the next winter, his burial marked only by their mausoleum’s huge shadow. I tried to keep her alive, recommended the County when it fell through with that Montague boy. Now I’ve lost a daughter twice, God can have me. My hands are bloody and raw.
April 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
geriwithetc.bsky.social
Lend me your ears! Hark! T'would be the Bard's 's 462nd birthday this fine #ShakespeareDay.
Apr 23, 1564- Apr 23, 1616

Here for thou, dear cousins, be fair words and phrases that he did doth invent––& thus is not ALL––to which heedless you may be that when you use them, you thus quoth the Bard.
April 23, 2026 at 3:02 PM
atlanticbooks.bsky.social
In honour of Shakespeare's birthday today grab a copy of #MuchAdoAboutNumbers by @robeastaway.bsky.social
A fascinating new take on the world of Shakespeare!
available to purchase here shorturl.at/W3lwC

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April 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
girlguidingsale.bsky.social
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men & women merely players:

— As You Like It, Act 2 Scene 7

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April 23, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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For #ShakespeareDay I would heartily recommend this book:
April 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Day 23: Shakespeare
To nap or no to nap, that is never the question! A most noble #ShakespeareDay to thee!

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April 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Anyone else going to fall asleep watching Hamlet? #ShakespeareDay #MST3k
April 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
capn-kirok.bsky.social
Eddie, er Jives, what was it Shakespeare used to say? @rememberingrik.bsky.social #ShakespeareDay #BottomRikAndAde
April 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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For #ShakespeareDay a poem inspired by Mercutio. This is ‘A Falcon in Falcon’s Clothing’

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A Falcon in Falcon’s Clothing The smooth whetstone sharpens my wit and rapier, my silken tongue, dagger-edged strikes deadly, like a falcon in flight. The lords are coy in my presence, knowing a word is all it would take to lure these Verona ladies to my nest. I am a master of the nobles’ sport. Should these men ever wish to feel my claws in duels, they need only state the field and which day’s dawn they wish to die below. Do not mistake my mirth for meekness, my ferocity cuts deeper than a hidden blade my loyalty is more deadly than the wolf’s tooth; an affront to my daydreaming friend Romeo is an affront to me—Mercutio. ©️Paul Short
April 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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March 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Today is #ShakespeareDay. Why not take the chance to check out the Société Française Shakespeare journal’s all new website?
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Revue de la Société française Shakespeare Revue en études shakespeariennes – Journal on Shakespearian studies
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April 23, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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Adam McNaughtan sings “Oor Hamlet: a tragedy in three minutes” 👆
#Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay #song
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Adam McNaughton : Hamlet
YouTube video by KillieKentRadio
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April 23, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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There was this king sitted in his garden all alane
When his brother in his ear poured a little bit o’ henbane,
Stole his brother’s crown & his money & his widow;
But the dead king walked & got his son and said, “Hey listen, kiddo…”

—Adam McNaughtan, “Oor Hamlet”
#Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay #song
Oor Hamlet Adam McNaughtan There was this king sitted in his garden all alane When his brother in his ear poured a little bit o’ henbane, Stole his brother’s crown and his money and his widow; But the dead king walked and got his son and said, “Hey listen, kiddo, I’ve been killed and it’s your duty to take revenge on Claudius. You kill him quick an’ clean an’ tell the nation what a fraud he is.” The kid said, “Right, I’ll do it, but I’ll have to play it crafty, So that no-one will suspect me, I’ll kid on that I’m a dafty.” So with all except Horatio—and he counts him as a friend— Hamlet, that’s the kid, he kids on, he’s round the bend, And because he isn’t ready for obligatory killin’ He tries to make the king think that he’s tuppence of the shillin’. Takes a rise out of Polonius, treats poor Ophelia vile, Tells Rosencrantz an’ Guildenstern Denmark’s a bleedin’ gaol. Then a group of travelling actors, like 7:84, Arrived to do a special one-night gig in Elsinore. Hamlet! Hamlet! Actin’ barmy! Hamlet! Hamlet! Loves his mammy! Hamlet! Hamlet! Hesitating, Wonders if the ghost’s a cheat And that is why he’s waiting. So Hamlet wrote a scene for the players to enact So Horatio and him could watch to see if Claudius cracked. Now the play was called “The Mousetrap”—not the one that’s running now— And sure enough, the king walks out before the final bow. So Hamlet’s got the proof that Claudius gave his dad the dose, The only problem being now that Claudius knows he knows. So while Hamlet tells his mother her new husband’s not a fit one, Uncle Claude puts out a contract with the English king as hit-man. So when Hamlet killed Polonius, the concealed corpus delicti Was the king’s excuse to send him for an English hempen necktie, With Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to make quite sure he got there, But Hamlet jumped the boat and put the finger straight on that pair. When Laertes heard his dad had been stabbed through the arras. He came runnin’ back to Elsinore tout suite hot-foot from Paris, And Ophelia with her dad killed by the man she was to marry— After saying it with flowers she committed hari-kari. Hamlet! Hamlet! No messin’! Hamlet! Hamlet! Learned his lesson! Hamlet! Hamlet! Yorick’s crust Convinced him that men, good or bad, At last must come to dust. Then Laertes lost his place and was demanding retribution, The king says, “Keep your head and I’ll provide you a solution.” So he arranged a swordfight for the interested parties, With a blunted sword for Hamlet and a sharp sword for Laertes. To make double sure—the old belt’n’braces line— He fixed a poisoned sword-tip and a poisoned cup of wine. Well the poisoned sword got Hamlet but Laertes went an’ muffed it ’Cause he got stabbed himself and he confessed before he snuffed it. Then Hamlet’s mammy drank the wine and as her face turned blue, Hamlet said, “I believe the king’s a baddie through and through.” “Incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,” he said, to be precise And made up for hesitating once by killing Claudius twice. ’Cause he stabbed him with the knife and forced the wine between his lips, He said, “The rest is silence!”—that was, Hamlet had his chips. They fired a volley over him that shook the topmost rafters, Then Fortinbras, knee-deep in Danes, lived happy ever after. Hamlet! Hamlet! All that gory! Hamlet! Hamlet! End of story! Hamlet! Hamlet! I’m on my way! If you thought that was boring You should read the bloody play.
April 23, 2026 at 4:28 PM
asls.org.uk
When the sun was white and wintry and drained of energy
Macbeth met the witches under the rim of the sky…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “Macbeth and the Witches”
from DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021
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Macbeth and the Witches by Iain Crichton Smith When the sun was white and wintry and drained of energy Macbeth met the witches under the rim of the sky. Why did you confirm my evil, he said. And the witches who were lighting thorns in the cold winter said, There is a play that one plays when the summer is over and you happened to be one of the cards in our hand, a deformed king with a coat too large for him and a crown that sizzled in the white wintry sky. These things are after all not important except to those who suffer, who are not important. Feeling belongs to the spring and the ignorance of lovers. Here in this wood it is a question of passing the time, and the abstract intellect constructs dramas with a queen and a pawn and the immortal joker who faces two ways at the frosty January gates. Let be, let be, it was quite a nice structure. And truth after all can be played with under the sun which is fading slowly towards a renaissance of leaves. Come, join us, join us, at the unimportant edge of things wearing your coat of blood with the hole in the breast. This is the west. The east has innocent wings.
April 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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“William Shakespeare was a powerful influence on Robert Burns… I count as many as 16 references to Shakespeare’s plays in his poetry”

—Prof Gerard Carruthers @glasgow.ac.uk on links & commonalities between Burns & Shakespeare
#ShakespeareDay #C18th #romanticism
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Haggis, neeps and soliloquys: the bonds that tie Robert Burns and Shakespeare
Why Scotland should raise a glass to a certain Brummie Bill.
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April 23, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen reads Edwin Morgan’s “Instructions to an Actor” ☝️ – in which Shakespeare gives instructions to the boy actor playing Hermione in THE WINTER’S TALE (recorded 1979)
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April 23, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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“This poem gets, via the heart of all theatre, to the heart of the communal in all the arts, and to the heart of form, the heart of voice and silence and to the heart of a kind of life that will never actually stop”

—Ali Smith on Edwin Morgan’s #poem “Instructions to an Actor”
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Edwin Morgan Instructions to an Actor Now, boy, remember this is the great scene. You’ll stand on a pedestal behind a curtain, the curtain will be drawn, and then you don’t move for eighty lines; don’t move, don’t speak, don’t breathe. I’ll stun them all out there, I’ll scare them, make them weep, but it depends on you. I warn you eighty lines is a long time, but you don’t breathe, you’re dead, you’re a dead queen, a statue, you’re dead as stone, new-carved, new-painted and the paint not dry – we’ll get some red to keep your lip shining – and you’re a mature woman, you’ve got dignity, some beauty still in middle age, and you’re kind and true, but you’re dead, your husband thinks you’re dead, the audience thinks you’re dead, and you don’t breathe, boy, I say you don’t even blink for eighty lines, if you blink you’re out! Fix your eye on something and keep watching it. Practise when you get home. It can be done. And you move at last – music’s the cue. When you hear a mysterious solemn jangle of instruments, make yourself ready. Five lines more, you can lift a hand. It may tingle a bit, but lift it – slow, slow – O this is where I hit them right between the eyes, I’ve got them now – I’m making the dead walk – you move a foot, slow, steady, down, you guard your balance in case you’re stiff, you move, you step down, down from the pedestal, control your skirt with one hand, the other hand you now hold out – O this will melt their hearts if nothing does – to your husband who wronged you long ago and hesitates in amazement to believe you are alive. Finally he embraces you, and there’s nothing I can give you to say, boy, but you must show that you have forgiven him. Forgiveness, that’s the thing. It’s like a second life. I know you can do it. – Right then, shall we try?
April 23, 2026 at 12:38 PM
asls.org.uk
“William Shakespeare was a powerful influence on Robert Burns… I count as many as 16 references to Shakespeare’s plays in his poetry”

—Prof Gerard Carruthers @uofglasgow.bsky.social on the links & commonalities between Burns & Shakespeare
#ShakespeareDay
theconversation.com/haggis-neeps...
Haggis, neeps and soliloquys: the bonds that tie Robert Burns and Shakespeare
Why Scotland should raise a glass to a certain Brummie Bill.
theconversation.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
asls.org.uk
Adam McNaughtan sings “Oor Hamlet”
#Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPcl...
Adam McNaughton : Hamlet
YouTube video by KillieKentRadio
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April 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM