Shakespeare's legacy! 400 years of Shakespeare!!! Let's Celebrate it!!!

A 400 year legacy of a life’s work in the arts!

Today, the 23rd of April 2016, we commemorate 400 years since the death of the great playwright William Shakespeare. From comedy to history, tragedy to sonnet, there is no doubting the influence Shakespeare has had on the literary world.

There’s no need to head for The Globe this weekend, we can have the very best of Shakespeare, classic and contemporary, his life and works just a click away!!!

But we, at Sagasta, are certainly celebrating it our own way!!! Our 1st IB students have done a superb job and prepared a handmade book for everybody to read. They have paid special attention to the following points:

• 1. Shakespeare
• 2. Elizabethan Theatre
• 3. Romeo and Juliet
• 4. The Tempest
• 5. Richard III
• 6. A Midsummer Night's Dream

Please, have a look!

We have even tried to speak as Shakespeare did!

The Globe and Shakespeare´s pronounciation, David Crystal gives a more sophisticated explanation of how Shakespeare spoke and explains how the OP, Original Pronounciation works, and how much we are loosing of Shakespeare texts if we listen to them in Modern English pronounciation.

We have a little bit of everything here!  
What about some insults by Shakespeare???

From Fishmonger to Bite your thumb!

Let´s finish with some very famous Shakespeare´s quotes:

Romeo and Juliet
1. What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
(2.2.45-6), Juliet

2. A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me!
(3.1.95-6), Mercutio
By any other word would smell as sweet.
(2.2.45-6), Juliet

2. A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me!
(3.1.95-6), Mercutio

Richard III
1. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
(5.4.8), Richard
 
2. Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
(1.1.1-2), Richard
The Tempest

1. "I have done nothing but in care of thee,
thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
art ignorant of what thou art, naught knowing
of whence I am, or that I am more better
Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
And thy no greater father."thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, 
whoart ignorant of what thou art, naught knowing
of whence I am, or that I am more better
Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
And thy no greater father."
Act 1, Sc. 1, Lines 19-24

2. "You taught me language, and my profit on 't

Is I know how to curse"

Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 437-438

Caliban says when speaking of Prospero's teaching

Is I know how to curse"

Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 437-438

Caliban says when speaking of Prospero's teaching

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

A Midsummer Night's dream1. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

2. “Though she be but little, she is fierce!”