For every hour we spend agonising over societal crimes of the past, we should probably allow a minute or two to wonder what we're doing now that will be similarly condemned a hundred years hence. Climate, obviously; animal rights, likewise. What else?
The first recorded performance of The Tempest took place at Whitehall Palace on 1 November 1611, on #AllHallowsDay. The Tempest was performed in front of King James I and his court in the old #BanquetingHouse at Whitehall Palace by Shakespeare’s company, The King’s Men.
It was a great afternoon for a cast screening of #HaevnOrHele in Glasgow yesterday. Nice to see all of these insanely talented people collected together again. #filmfamily… https://t.co/QaLs2UiJ5C
In 1970 American actor &director Sam Wanamaker set up Shakespeare’s Globe Trust to pursue his dream of building a reconstruction of the original Globe theatre. It took 23 years, and sadly Sam died in 1993, while the building was still under construction #LondonHistoryDay
JOAN LA PUCELLE:
I am prepared: here is my keen-edged sword,
Deck'd with five flower-de-luces on each side;
The which at Touraine, in Saint Katharine's
churchyard,
Out of a great deal of old iron I chose forth. #JoanOfArc#MaidOfOrleans#HenryVIpt1#Shakespeare#Marlowe#Nashe
"The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read." - Mark Twain
#WorldBookDay is being celebrated across the world and it also happens to be birth and death anniversary of great English poet William Shakespeare!