HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. SHAKESPEARE!

[rapa]

The Bard is 450 today!!!!!!!!

[Mandy Muffin]

In his own words:

O, sir! you are old;
Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine: you should be rul’d and led
By some discretion that discerns your state
Better than you yourself.
King Lear (2.4.140-44)

I just remember he gave me fits about 1958, as I had to read all those comedies and tragedies. Alas, Poor Shakespeare, I knew him well. 

[Ioruach]

My, how time does fly!

Seriously, I sometimes think about what we and the English language would be missing had he never been born. In fact, I am even unable to contemplate the language without Shakespeare.