O how I wish I'd thought of it

A fair few people whose job it is to think about these things reckon Shakespeare's birthday was probably April 23. So guess what the City of Chicago and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater have done for the occasion? Yes! Yes! Talk Like Shakespeare Day!!! This site tells you all you need to know (although I shake my head at the howler that the second-person plural is "thee" — what was someone thinking?). Oh, and don't miss the Patrick Stewart video.



And here's the CNN story.

And here, just to add another data point to the argument that some people really do get carried away, is an age-regression of what Shakespeare may have looked like at age 14. I don't see any zits, though. Wouldn't you think that an artistic adolescent of undeniable excitability (why, only a few years later he was standing at the altar watching his pregnant girlfriend walk down the aisle) might have a few zits?