a great way to get involved

a Shakespeare day!

This is just an idea. Lets hold a SPECIAL poetry day in nanhu Park celebrating some of the great poets/dramatists/writers from around the worl

I will work on Shakespeare

Here are some of his great pieces:

Famous Speeches from Shakespeare's plays

Play		Speech
Julius Caesar		Cassius's speech to Brutus
		Mark Anthony's funeral speech
Macbeth		Macbeth's speech after hearing of the death of his wife
Hamlet		Hamlet ponders suicide
Henry V		King Henry V encourages his troops to take the city of Harfleur
		King Henry V encourages his troops before the battle of Agincourt
Richard II		John of Gaunt describes England
Romeo and Juliet		Romeo sees Juliet at her window
		Romeo and Juliet part after a night of love
Merchant of Venice		Shylock's desire for revenge
		Portia asks Shylock for mercy Anyone else up for a performance in nanhu? - or to join in? I love this speech by the way! Love it!- From Henry V - Geatest motivational speech ever! We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

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Comment by Jack Field on March 15, 2013 at 6:57: I wish i had a vpn.

Shakespeare was featured in a recent movie. Apparently he is a fraud. I say NO. What do you think?

Comment by CCF Beijing on March 14, 2013 at 17:56: http://news.yahoo.com/7-movies-cleverly-disguised-shakespeare-adapt...

Comment by Richard Roman on July 14, 2012 at 0:49: Well - a genius with language?

Comment by Richard Roman on July 14, 2012 at 0:48

n all of his work – the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems – Shakespeare uses 17,677 words: Of those words, Shakespeare inventedan incredible 1,700 of them!

This list of words that we use in our daily speech were all brought into usage by Shakespeare:

accommodation
aerial
amazement
apostrophe
assassination
auspicious
baseless
bloody
bump
castigate
changeful
clangor
control (noun)
countless
courtship
critic
critical
dexterously
dishearten
dislocate
dwindle
eventful
exposure
fitful
frugal
generous
gloomy
gnarled
hurry
impartial
inauspicious
indistinguishable
invulnerable
lapse
laughable
lonely
majestic
misplaced
monumental
multitudinous
obscene
palmy
perusal
pious
premeditated
radiance
reliance
road
sanctimonious
seamy
sportive
submerge
suspicious

Comment by Richard Roman on July 14, 2012 at 0:44: To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep,
To sleep, perchance to Dream; Ay, there's the rub,