#shakespearesunday

During the pandemic, Patrick Stewart recorded himself reading Shakespeare's sonnets. It seemed appropriate to post one this week. Here he is reading Sonnet 73. #ShakespeareSunday #PatrickStewart #RIP #Bookstodon

"That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest."

• William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 73" 🎨 Raymond McCormack

#ShakespeareSunday #Literature #Poetry #Renaissance #Elizabethan #Shakespeare #WilliamShakespeare

Right. Off to St. Ratford upon a Von, to have, despite receiving a Complete Works as a scholarship gift, my ignorance of The Bard's œuvre exposed. If anyone can chip in with little-known and unverifiable "facts" this would be a great time to help! #ShakespeareSunday

For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. – Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, 3.1.4) #shakespearesunday

It may be St George's Day today, but more importantly for me, as a girl born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, it's #Shakespearesbirthday I painted this #map of all the plays of #Shakespeare to commemorate the 400th anniversary of his death, which was also 23 April. The man was a genius. #painting #shakespeareSunday #williamshakespeare #englishTeacher #cartography