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!”

Mónico Sánchez, an inspiration for us all!!! Mónico, The Spanish Tesla !!!

Mónico Sánchez , the innovator, hard worker and an example to live by!

Mónico Sánchez: 

X-RAY Pioneer

Mobile Phone first Inventor for the Collins Wireless Telephone Company

and

English student

Self-taught student in the 19th century

Mónico Sánchez was born on a day like today, May 4th 1881, (Piedrabuena (Spain). He was radiology and electrotherapy pioneer who worked in New York for The Collins Wireless Telephone between 1909 and 1910. He invented a High Frequency and X-Ray Apparatus. The Collins Co. and his merged The Continental Wireless and Telegraph, Co. was involved in a worthless stocks sell campaign and many others. It describes the Collins' wireless phone, the sell campaign and the troubles with the law. Only Marconi's company survived. Sánchez returned to Spain to found the Laboratorio Electrico Sánchez with a great success.

Believe it or not, we have here at the Sagasta, a real High Frequency and X-Ray Apparatus. You can check it out at the exhibition cases on the first floor.  Don´t miss it!!!

If you think the mobile phone is an American/Asian invention.... Think twice!

The first mobile phone ever!

You can search for more information about the Electrotherapy museum .

May Day, Workers Day!

May Day on May 1 is an ancient Northern Hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday; it is also a traditional spring holiday in many cultures. Dances, singing, and cake are usually part of the celebrations that the day includes.

Traditional English May Day rites and celebrations includeMorris dancing, crowning a May Queen and celebrations involving a maypole. Much of this tradition derives from the pagan Anglo-Saxon customs held during "Þrimilci-mōnaþ", (the Old English name for the month of May meaning Month of Three Milkings) along with many Celtic traditions.

Maypole dance 

International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some places, is a celebration of laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement, anarchists, socialists, and communists and occurs every year on May Day, 1 May, an ancient European spring holiday... The date was chosen for International Workers' Day by the Second International to commemorate the Haymarket affair, which occurred in Chicago on 4 May 1886. This Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest

May Day celebrations 2015.

Red Nose Day!

Today is Red Nose Day in England!  Let's Celebrate it !  Let's participate !

What is Red Nose Day?

Red Nose Day is a UK-wide fundraising event organised by Comic Relief every two years. On Red Nose Day everyone is encouraged to cast inhibitions aside, put on a Red Nose and fundraise – celebrities included!

It culminates in a night of cutting edge comedy and moving documentary films on BBC One. Red Nose Day unites the entire nation in trying to make a difference to the lives of thousands of people across Africa and the UK who are facing terrible injustice or living in desperate poverty.

Having fun and changing lives

Red Nose Day is back on Friday 13th March and once again, the nation is
 gearing up to put on their Noses, pull out all the stops, and get fundraising.

Whether it's at work, at school or at home, the money raised for Red Nose
 Day is spent by Comic Relief to transform the lives of millions of people, 
 both at home in the UK and across Africa.


Your face funny for money!!!!

BBC Comic Relief 2015

007 Comic Relif Mockumentary!

Need a more familiar red nose????  
Here you are!  Hope you like it!!!!

Are we Equals?

JAMES BOND SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
www.weareequals.org / www.weareequals.org/blog

The two-minute short, specially commissioned for International Women's Day, sees 007 star Daniel Craig undergo a dramatic makeover as he puts himself, quite literally, in a woman's shoes.

Directed by acclaimed 'Nowhere Boy' director/conceptual artist Sam Taylor-Wood, scripted by Jane Goldman ('Kick Ass') and featuring the voice of Dame Judi Dench reprising her role as 'M', the film has beeb screened in cinemas and streamed online in a bid to highlight the levels of inequality that persist between men and women in the UK and worldwide. It is the first film featuring Bond to be directed by a woman.

And HOLLYOAKS supporting equality!  Are we equals?  Till the answer is yes we must never stop asking!