All the world's a stage
And I Shakespeare, am the Hipster.
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Fun Fact: Before Bieber Fever came and swept the world, there was something known as Bard Fever or Bardolatry.
Bardolatry refers to the excessive love of Shakespeare, who was also known as the Bard. It was coined by George William Shaw and those who idolize Shakespeare are known as Bardolaters.
Wow think we could get that to trend on Twitter instead of Beliebers? ;)
Fun Fact: Shakespeare started writing tragedies right from the beginning of his career!
Tragic Love Stories: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida
His stories were also way more tragic and way more convoluted and interesting than Nicholas Sparks’s!
Bruno Mars said he’d catch a grenade for you
He said he’d die for you.
Are you swooning yet?
Well, pshhhtt, Romeo did it 415 years earlier and believe me, Juliet swooned so hard she died too :|
Info Time: Romeo took poison and died because he believed Juliet to be dead and he did not want to live without her. Juliet (who was faking her death) woke up and realised that Romeo had died and decided to kill herself to be with him too.
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There is no Countess Olivia in Othello. Do you mean Emilia?
My apologies, I meant Countess Olivia from Twelfth Night. I’ve corrected it, sorry for the confusion! :X
Fun Fact: Shakespeare was one of the first male writers to have strong female characters in his books.
All’s Well Ends Well (Helen), Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra), As You Like It (Rosalind), The Comedy Of Errors (Adriana), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Princess of France, Rosaline), The Merchant of Venice (Portia), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice) and Twelfth Night (Countess Olivia)
Shakespeare: standing up for Women’s Rights since 1592 :D
Fun Fact: Hamlet was written in 1601, which is also the year when Shakespeare’s father John Shakespeare died. It is believed that his father’s death motivated him to write Hamlet. Therefore, the conclusion is: the character Hamlet was based on William Shakespeare himself!
Pure Conjecture: Going by that theory, would that mean that Hamlet’s Ophelia was Shakespeare’s Anne Hathaway? And Shakespeare’s bequeathing of his “second-best bed” to her might have been his very own version of “Get thee to a nunnery”! :O
Fun Fact 1: Did you know the first full version of the Oxford English Dictionary was only published in 1928!
Fun Fact 2: According to the Oxford English Dictonary, Shakespeare has contributed more than 500 words to it. Which means that he created those words…even before the dictionary existed!
Are you now in amazement at the countless number of useful things Shakespeare has created?
^ and yes those are just some of the words that Shakespeare coined!
Well, technically it is true, sonnets are essentially songs.
The term sonnet comes from the Italian word sonetto which means “little song”. Not to mention they follow a structure and they rhyme.
And we all know how Shakespeare’s sonnets talk about love (as well as beauty, mortality and time) and well, doesn’t that just sound a little like Taylor Swift?
Don’t get me wrong, I like Taylor, but I was just thinking that if Shakespeare had a music producer, he might have been a big hit today!
Let’s face it. Shakespeare forever redefined the meaning of the word “question”.
“To be or not to be - that is the question.”
When someone next says to you “Hey can I ask you something?”
Just reply “Be.” or “Don’t be.” :P
Alternatively, you can wait until they’ve asked their question and then be all affronted and say “That’s not the question! To be or not to be, that is the question!”
Hahaha, don’t quote me on this one! :)
