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Let’s hear it for the Bard

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Check out this scribbled page which has gone viral for a dose of visual and literature juice! Cool and somewhat beautiful, n’est pas?

What you’re looking at is a variety of expressions that we owe to Shakespeare. And, as you can tell by the fact that they are jammed cheek by jowl onto one moleskin page (and I doubt that’s the end of the list by a very, very long shot), there are rather a lot of them. If that hasn’t filled your Shakespeare quota for today, hang around and I’ll treat you to (what I remember of ) Quince the Mechanical’s speech from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ahem, “Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show…”

Lesley Crooks, Sales & Digital Manager

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