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A permanent exhibition is to be created in Shoreditch on the site of the London theatre where William Shakespeare perfected his trade as a playwright and actor.

The Theatre, which opened in 1576 in what was then the rowdy outskirts of London, staged plays including Romeo and Juliet and was one of the first purpose-built theatres in England

[theguardian.com]

Jnei 8 Sep 5
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Quite informative, thank you.

Condor5 Level 8 Sep 5, 2018
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Fascinating

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Awesome!

I love Shakespeare's sonnet 18, to a "fair youth"..apparently Shakespeare was bisexual. I like how he says that the handsome youth's looks may fade, and he will eventually die, but the young man's beauty is eternal because of the sonnet.

This sonnet was also used in the movie "Clueless," where Cher wrote several lines from the poem in a note, explaining where she got the lines by saying, "Duh! It's a famous quote!"

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee

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Very nice to know. Thanks for sharing!

Hathacat Level 9 Sep 5, 2018
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Hooray!! I started reading Shakespeare when I was 9. My grandmother gave me a small collection of his plays that I took everywhere. My favourite sonnet is the one that begins "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes". (I'm doing my happy dance.)

pixiedust Level 8 Sep 5, 2018

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

🙂

@Jnei Yes, that's the one 🙂 I recite it in the morning when I'm on the treadmill. Are you familiar with John Herbert's heartrending play "Fortune and Men's Eyes'?

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Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

LB67 Level 7 Sep 5, 2018
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So cool.

Umbral Level 8 Sep 5, 2018
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