I bet you forgot - Shakespeare birthdate/death date is today

[packman]

“We are such stuff
As dreams are made on;
and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep

[Thomas Hurt]

1. They should both resign and make another dumb and dumber movie.

Dumb and Dumber 3 -Both Sides of the Pond.

[RGinNJ]

2. So it's his to be and not to be day.

[packman]

3. NICELY DONE -

[Aristus]

4. I haven't forgotten.

Today is also my wedding anniversary, which is fun because Mrs. Aristus and I met while doing a Shakespeare play. We didn't realize until about six months after the wedding that our anniversary is also the date traditionally recognized as the date of Shakespeare's birth and death.

There's actually no hard evidence that he was born and that he died on April 23rd.

The register for the church in Stratford records his christening on the 26th of April, 1564. In Elizabethan times, babies were traditionally christened on the third day after birth. Conversely, his burial is recorded as taking place on April 25th, 1616. And burials usually took place two days after death. So, soft evidence, but not irrefutable.

[In_The_Wind]

5. Happy Anniversary, Aristus