Words, words, words

Your Will hath been progenitor to many words and phrases that ye moderns use to this very day. Whilst I did not invent the couplet, I didst use it manie a time in mine poesie. Here thou canst observe some of these couplets from mine workes.

Shakescene Music: Tunes from Will's age and plays

Good eve, gentles! Today, your Will hath for thee music from mine playes and age. This tune is one that be popular for parties.

Come, thou monarch of the vine, 
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
In thy fats our cares be drown'd,
With thy grapes our hairs be crown'd:
Cup us, till the world go round,
Cup us, till the world go round!
(Antony and Cleopatra, 2.7.127-32)

Need an insult? Will has you covered...

Needest thou an insult? Your Will doth have thee cover'd. Feel free to share or tagge those that do offende thee on Facebook.

Advice from a villain

Here thou canst observe some advice from one of mine villains, groundlyngs. Dost recognize the play?

Will's London: St. Paul's Cathedral

Beholde, groundlyngs! Your Will hath etchéd for thee another image of mine Londoun. Here thou canst observe St. Paul's Cathedral as it did stande before lightning struck the spire in 1561. Kit Marlowe does love this parte of Londoun best, though this be not so muche for the churchynge as for the booksellers in the church's shadow.

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Needest thou an insult? Will has you cover'd. Feel free to share or tagge those on Facebooke that do offend thee.

Will's daily life

Good eve, groundlyngs! I didst but muse thou might enjoye observinge some items from mine daily life. Here thou may'st observe nit combs, which the men and women of mine age use to pull the pestes from our hair and beardes. These combs were upon Henry VIII's Mary Rose, a ship in the fleete of the Tudor navy, which did sinke in 1545.

Words, words, words

As thou likely knowst, Will hath been progenitour to many words and phrases ye moderns use to this day. Whilst I didst not invent the anaphora, I am moste fonde of makynge use of this device.

A poem for the Queen

My deare groundlyngs, mine players doth prepare for a Shrovetide performance of mine own "As You like It" for her majestie, and I didst think it wise to address her with some poesie as she is moste fonde of suche arts.  What thinkest thou?  Is't too clumsie for the moment? I do but praye we men all do not drinke as much as we hath on our Night of Errours.

Sonnet 145

Good eve, groundlyngs! Your Will didst muse that some of thee might longe for some posie. This is mine sonnet 145, which doth depart from iambic pentameter to a different meter. Dost recognize what that meter is?

Will's Q&A

Betimes your Will doth pose queries in mine plays and verse. I didst think thou might find these questions and answeres to be amusynge.

Good advice from Will

This night, your Will doth offer thee some advice on the matter of honestie, from mine own Prince of Denmark: "We must speak by the card or equivocation will undo us..." What say ye, groundlyngs? Is't better to be held an honest man than a believable liar?

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Goode day to thee, groundlyngs.  Need'st thou an insult for those that do offend thee? Feel free to share this image or tagge the cur on Facebook @Shakeblogging.

Will's yearbooke

Here thou canst perceive another leaf of Will, his yearbooke, groundlyngs. This is the page of a German princess, Margarethe Elisabeth von Ansbach-Bayreuth.

Sonnet 94

Good eve, groundlyngs. Here thou canst observe mine sonnet 94, which doth express the vexation we hath alle, no doubte, felt when a friend or love doth give us occasion to wonder if our love be honoréd.

Words, words, words

As thou likely knowst, Will hath been progenitour to many words and phrases ye moderns use to this day. In mine playe of Love's Labour's Lost, I didst use the phrase "honorificabilitudinitatibus," the meaning of which thou canst observe here:

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Need an insult?

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Contest winners!

1. We have winners in our Test thy Mettle contest! Four of thee hath identified the strange wooden chair as the throne of England, also knowne as St. Edward's Chair. The chair has served as the coronation throne for English kinges and queens... since 1308.
   
   First and second place winners receive a Shakesblogging exclusive mug of their choice, pictured below. These mugs depict Bankside, the London Bridge, the Tower, and Smithfield and are based on maps contemporary with Shakespeare's age.
   
   First place: Anthony Kortas
   Second Place: Michelle Drake
   
   Thanks to all of thee for thy interest, and we shall have new contests anon!

Will on the woes of love...

Hastow ever found thyself in suche a matter as this, wooynge of one thou shouldst not have woo'd?

A matter or wooynge

Hastow ever found thyself in suche a matter as this, wooynge of one thou shouldst not have woo'd?