-Shakespeare's Grave Is Cursed
It may be Shakespeare's final poem, an ominous couple of lines
etched on his tomb in Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon;
"Blessed be the man that spares these stones / And cursed be he
who moves my bones," that alludes to this grave's curse. It's an
invocation to future generations to leave the bard in peace.
Shakespeare's curse has been taken seriously enough that his
bones have remained in place for four centuries. Even recently, as
the church undergoes some much needed renovations, nervous
historians and clergymen are organizing their efforts around the
bard's bones, to ensure they don't disturb the dead playwright.

-Shakespeare's Sonnets Were Written For Men
Published in 1609, Shakespeare's sonnet sequence is 154 poems
long. The sequence contains some of the most beautiful and
enduring love poetry in the English language: "Shall I compare
thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more
temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, /
And summer's lease hath all too short a date." Pretty smooth,
right? Well, one of the five things you didn't know about
Shakespeare is that that poem is about two dudes. In fact, 126 of
Shakespeare's sonnets are about a deep love between two male
friends.
Now, it was impossible to imagine someone as a "homosexual" in
the Renaissance, which is not to say that men didn't have sex with
each other. It just means that people weren't considered "gay" or
"straight" in early modern England. Instead, homoeroticism was
understood to be a normal extension of male friendship, and that
desire is on full display in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Shakespeare Invented The Word "torture"
Shakespeare didn't just invent "torture," but also "excitement,"
"addiction" and "savagery." Another of the five things you might
not have known about Shakespeare is just how much he's
influenced the English language. Our man Will invented about
1,700 words in the English language. A remarkable number of the
phrases and words we use every day first appeared in
Shakespeare's work. Shakespeare converted verbs into adjectives
or nouns into verbs whenever it suited him. Amazingly, his
linguistic inventions stuck, and we still use them today.

-We probably don’t spell Shakespeare’s name correctly
Sources from William Shakespeare’s lifetime spell his last name in
more than 80 different ways, ranging from “Shappere” to
“Shaxberd.” In the handful of signatures that have survived, the
Bard never spelled his own name “William Shakespeare,” using
variations or abbreviations such as “Willm Shakp,” “Willm
Shakspere” and “William Shakspeare” instead. However it’s
spelled, Shakespeare is thought to derive from the Old English
words “schakken” (“to brandish”) and “speer” (“spear”), and
probably referred to a confrontational or argumentative person.

-Kings James Bible
In the King James Bible the 46th word of Psalm 46 is ‘shake’ and
the 46th word from the end of the same Psalm is ‘spear’. Some
think this was a hidden birthday message to the Bard, as the King
James Bible was published in 1611 – the year of Shakespeare’s 46th
birthday.

Wow! Nice one martha. Thanks for sharing. The inscription on his grave stone or tomb is a "wow".

I like his formation of words. "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May", "Shall i compare thee to a summer's day?"

Beautiful!

Hmmmm

Caracta: Wow! Nice one martha. Thanks for sharing. The inscription on his grave stone or tomb is a "wow".

I like his formation of words. "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May", "Shall i compare thee to a summer's day?"

Beautiful!

buh m nt a fan of his... His dictions are too hard

Nawtipet:
buh m nt a fan of his... His dictions are too hard

lol...reminds me of the King James Bible. There are some things that cannot be fully expressed by our "modern" English language.

Nawtipet:
buh m nt a fan of his... His dictions are too hard

Sorry about that. I grew up reading him cos I have his complete works at home including plays and poems and I love his style of writing

Caracta:

lol...reminds me of the King James Bible. There are some things that cannot be fully expressed by our "modern" English language.

the only book of his dat i'v read was "Romeo and Juliet"... I wuldnt av read it buh Jamb syllabus included it... I was lyk "WOW!"... It was amazing... Bt datz whr it ends o... I no go read im books again... Unless sum1 will rewrite it in simple english..

Mynd_44:
Sorry about that. I grew up reading him cos I have his complete works at home including plays and poems and I love his style of writing

oya na... Baado!... I only deal wif african literature... Itz nw kindda empty since my papa died "Chinua Achebe"... I write buks too buh so far, i av relented... Dnt knw y... I started writing frm primary scul...