theatre
On Shakespear
What needs my Shakespear for his honour’d Bones,
The labour of an age in piled Stones,
Or that his hallow’d reliques should be hid
Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame,
What need’st thou such weak witnes of thy name?
Thou in our wonder and astonishment
Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.
For whilst toth’ shame of slow-endeavouring art,
Thy easie numbers flow, and that each heart
Hath from the leaves of thy unvalu’d Book,
Those Delphick lines with deep impression took
Then thou our fancy of it self bereaving,
Dost make us Marble with too much conceaving;
And so Sepulcher’d in such pomp dost lie,
That Kings for such a Tomb would wish to die.
– John Milton
10th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1944 Tim Rice (musician and song writer)
Died:
2007 Norman Mailer (author)
On This Day:
1990 The film “Home Alone” premiers
Have a good Saturday, 10th November
8th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1847 Bram Stoker (author – Dracula)
Died:
1674 John Milton (poet)
On This Day:
1889 Montana becomes the 41st State of the USA
Have a good Thursday, 8th November
2nd November – On This Day In History
Born:
1913 Burt Lancaster (actor – Spartacus)
1950 George Bernard Shaw (playwright)
On This Day:
1889 North and South Dakota become the 39th and 40th States of the USA
Have a good Friday, 2nd November
12th October – On This Day In History
Born:
1935 Luciano Pavarotti (singer)
Died:
1997 John Denver (Country Music singer)
On This Day:
1968 Equatorial Guinea declares its independence (from Spain)
Have a good Friday, 12th October
16th September – On This Day In History
Born:
1952 Micky Rourke (actor)
Died:
2016 Edward Albee (playwright – Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolfe?)
On This Day:
1857 Mexico adopts its constitution
Have a good Sunday, 16th September
26th July – On This Day In History
Born:
1856 George Bernard Shaw (playwright, Pygmalion – Nobel Prize winner)
Died:
1952 Eva Peron (Evita) First Lady of Argentina
On This Day:
1847 Liberia becomes an independent nation
Have a good Thursday, 26th July
23rd April – On This Day In History
Born:
1928 Shirley Temple (actress)
Died:
1616 William Shakespeare (playwright, poet)
On This Day:
1982 The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is released
Have a good Monday, 23rd April
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26th July – On This Day In History
Born:
1856 George Bernard Shaw (dramatist)
Died:
1863 Sam Houston (1st President of the Republic of Texas)
On This Day:
1965 Republic of Maldives gains independence (from Britain)
Have a good Wednesday, 26th July
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10th November – On This Day In History
Born:
1944 Tim Rice (songwriter – The Lion King)
Died:
1970 Charles de Gaulle (president of France)
On This Day:
1918 Poland proclaims independence
Have a good Thursday, 10th November
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