Talk Like Shakespeare Day!

A few years back, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre started Talk Like Shakespeare Day, which is celebrated every year on April 23, Shakespeare's birthday.  The company even created a website dedicated to the event, complete with ways to turn your everyday phrases into luxurious Elizabethan sentences.  There is also a collection of Shakespeare inspired videos.  While I didn't watch them all, my favorite so far has to be Brian Cox teaching Hamlet's most famous soliloquy to Theo, aged 2 1/2.

There's also a hilarious sketch by Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie that I can't stop laughing at:

If you're in Chicago today, stop by Navy Pier, Chicago Shakespeare's home, to visit with Shakespeare himself:)

...And to thine own self, be true!