An Alliterative Name For an Animal Rarely Seen in Cartoons
- Nicky Narwhal
- Penny Pangolin
- Sandy Salamander
- Cassis Cicada
- Tammany Tiger
- Freddie the Fungus
- Spencer the Spitting Cobra
- Wally Wildebeest
- Marty Marmot
- Zelda Zebu
- Scampy Scorpion
An Alliterative Name For an Animal Rarely Seen in Cartoons
- Nicky Narwhal
- Penny Pangolin
- Sandy Salamander
- Cassis Cicada
- Tammany Tiger
- Freddie the Fungus
- Spencer the Spitting Cobra
- Wally Wildebeest
- Marty Marmot
- Zelda Zebu
- Scampy Scorpion
- Timmy Tapeworm
Alliterative Name For an Animal Rarely Seen in Cartoons
- Nicky Narwhal
- Penny Pangolin
- Sandy Salamander
- Cassis Cicada
- Tammany Tiger
- Freddie the Fungus
- Spencer the Spitting Cobra
- Wally Wildebeest
- Marty Marmot
- Zelda Zebu
- Scampy Scorpion
- Timmy Tapeworm
- Betty Bedbug
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh, King Henry V
And others (as did Olivier, of course).
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh, King Henry V
- David Tennant, Hamlet
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh, King Henry V
- David Tennant, Hamlet
- Christopher Plummer (a superb Iago in Othello on Broadway, opposite James Earl Jones)
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh, King Henry V
- David Tennant, Hamlet
- Christopher Plummer (a superb Iago in Othello on Broadway, opposite James Earl Jones)
- Ian McKellen, King Lear
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh, King Henry V
- David Tennant, Hamlet
- Christopher Plummer (a superb Iago in Othello on Broadway, opposite James Earl Jones)
- Ian McKellen, King Lear
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Romeo
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh, King Henry V
- David Tennant, Hamlet
- Christopher Plummer (a superb Iago in Othello on Broadway, opposite James Earl Jones)
- Anthony Hopkins, Othello
(in blackface and curly wig, doesn’t look much like a respected general to me)- YouTube
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh, King Henry V
- David Tennant, Hamlet
- Christopher Plummer (a superb Iago in Othello on Broadway, opposite James Earl Jones)
- Ian McKellen, King Lear
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Romeo
- Anthony Hopkins, Othello
(in blackface and curly wig, doesn’t look much like a respected general to me)- YouTube
(fixing numbering and adding in simultaneous posts)
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh, King Henry V
- David Tennant, Hamlet
- Christopher Plummer ( Othello
- Ian McKellen, King Lear
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Romeo
- Anthony Hopkins, Othello
- Claire Danes, Romeo and Juliet
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh, King Henry V
- David Tennant, Hamlet
- Christopher Plummer ( Othello
- Ian McKellen, King Lear
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Romeo
- Anthony Hopkins, Othello
- Claire Danes, Romeo and Juliet
- Alan Cumming, MacBeth
Today is also his 452nd birthday. He actually wrote a scene in which Cassius remRks on the symmetry of dying on his own birthday:
“This day I breathed first. Time is come round,
And where I did begin, there shall I end.
My life is run his compass.”
Julius Cæsar Act 3 Scene 5
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh, King Henry V
- David Tennant, Hamlet
- Christopher Plummer ( Othello
- Ian McKellen, King Lear
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Romeo
- Anthony Hopkins, Othello
- Claire Danes, Romeo and Juliet
- Alan Cumming, MacBeth
- Maggie Smith, Desdemona (opposite Laurence Olivier)
Today is probably his 452nd birthday, but we can’t know for sure since what we have is a baptismal record for April 26 and not a birth record. Baptisms tended to be on the 3rd day after the birth, but if he was born just before midnight on April 22nd they might have put it off to the 4th day after. Or he could have been born just after midnight on April 24 and they could have baptized him 2 days after.
Pictures of the original records here:
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh, King Henry V
- David Tennant, Hamlet
- Christopher Plummer ( Othello
- Ian McKellen, King Lear
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Romeo
- Anthony Hopkins, Othello
- Claire Danes, Romeo and Juliet
- Alan Cumming, MacBeth
- Maggie Smith, Desdemona (opposite Laurence Olivier)
- Denzel Washington, Much Ado About Nothing
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh, King Henry V
- David Tennant, Hamlet
- Christopher Plummer ( Othello
- Ian McKellen, King Lear
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Romeo
- Anthony Hopkins, Othello
- Claire Danes, Romeo and Juliet
- Alan Cumming, MacBeth
- Maggie Smith, Desdemona (opposite Laurence Olivier)
- Denzel Washington, Much Ado About Nothing
- Judi Dench, Lady Macbeth
On Shakespeare’s 400th death anniversary: Actors who have played roles on his plays
- Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
- Kenneth Branagh, King Henry V
- David Tennant, Hamlet
- Christopher Plummer ( Othello
- Ian McKellen, King Lear
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Romeo
- Anthony Hopkins, Othello
- Claire Danes, Romeo and Juliet
- Alan Cumming, MacBeth
- Maggie Smith, Desdemona (opposite Laurence Olivier)
- Denzel Washington, Much Ado About Nothing
- Judi Dench, Lady Macbeth
- Olivia Hussy, Romeo and Juliet
Next up: Trivia about Shakespeare’s life
- His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.
Next up: Trivia about Shakespeare’s life
- His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith
- He died the same day as Cervantes’
But neither precisely verifiable within a day
Next up: Trivia about Shakespeare’s life
- His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith
- He died the same day as Cervantes’
- He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26.
Germaine Greer’s biography argues that Anne was not a “cougar”; some of Shakespeare’s writings show predatory young men in pursuit of attractive older women. Greer demonstrates that an unmarried woman in her mid-20s would not have been considered exceptional or desperate. Ann Hathaway, Greer argues, was likely to be literate, and given the relative standing of their families in Warwickshire, she may very well have been considered a more desirable match than her husband.
Trivia about Shakespeare’s life
- His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith
- He died the same day as Cervantes’
- He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26.
- There are six surviving copies of his signature
Trivia about Shakespeare’s life
- His children were Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith
- He died the same day as Cervantes
- He married Ann Hathaway when he was 18 and she was around 26.
- There are six surviving copies of his signature
- His son Hamnet died at age 11, quite possibly a victim of bubonic plague