[Chris O'Carroll]

Today is, by tradition, his 450th birthday. (We know he was baptized 450 years ago this Saturday.) Two years from today will be the 400th anniversary of his death. He might have been able to find the words for the occasion. The rest of us can try.

[conny]

i wrote a sonnet for him today. it seemed the best thing to do.

[Gail White]

I picture him looking down from Dramatist Heaven and saying to Marlowe, Webster, and Jonson, "Yah, yah, look who's still on the stage! "

[Susan McLean]

I just wanted to post this link to a gorgeous sonnet by Dick Davis that gave me shivers, a fitting tribute to Shakespeare:

http://www.nccsc.net/archives/poetry/poems/winters-tale

I loved both poetry and drama before I ever read Shakespeare, but he made me love both more. He is my favorite writer, and I am not at all bothered that he is the favorite writer of many other people, too.

Susan