“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” ~ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

#ShakespeareDay #bloomscrolling #bees #BeKind #NaturePhotography #PartialToPink #SolaceInNature #DelightOverDarkness

“William Shakespeare was a powerful influence on Robert Burns… I count as many as 16 references to Shakespeare’s plays in his poetry”

—Prof Gerard Carruthers on the links & commonalities between Burns & Shakespeare

https://theconversation.com/haggis-neeps-and-soliloquys-the-bonds-that-tie-robert-burns-and-shakespeare-53578/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #drama #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay

Timed to Shakespeare Day, Joe Quesada and Amazing Comics Announce Undiscover’d, A New Line of Comic Books Based on the Plays of the Bard #comics #comicbooks #undiscoverd #shakespeare #shakespeareday

https://graphicpolicy.com/2025/04/23/timed-to-shakespeare-day-joe-quesada-and-amazing-comics-announce-undiscoverd-a-new-line-of-comic-books-based-on-the-plays-of-the-bard/

Forget the St Georges Day rubbish, with a Turk appropriated by the Brits.

It's Shakespeare Day

#ShakespearesBirthday #ShakespeareDay

Happy #ShakespeareDay! Why not celebrate by making it Weird – with our video about the history of that word, and its connections to Fate, Shakespeare, and witches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYPoTrHTXVQ

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Shakespeare #Weird

There was this king sitted in his garden all alane
When his brother in his ear poured a little bit o’ henbane,
Stole his brother’s crown and his money and his widow;
But the dead king walked and got his son and said, “Hey listen, kiddo…”

—Adam McNaughtan, “Oor Hamlet”: a tragedy in 3 minutes

Adam McNaughtan sings “Oor Hamlet”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPclD-m64Tg

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #song #drama #tragedy #Hamlet #humour #Shakespeare #ShakespeareDay