But the director argues that his ruthless appropriation of the Bard makes a statement.
" The Bard wrote a second play that included Plump Jack, "The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Who better than the bard to highlight London as a global city where more than 250 languages are spoken?
The so-called death head was made when the bard's grave was opened for the burial of his wife in 1834.
As the Bard most aptly put it centuries ago, one can be full of sound and fury yet signify nothing.
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The highlight of the week for many was the chairing of the bard ceremony held at the Pavilion on Friday.
Elsewhere on Monday, Professor Stanley Wells, chairman of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, unveiled a newly identified portrait of the Bard.
It turns out we can for taxes too, for new evidence suggests the bard was a bit of a tax cheat.
You can watch an authentic performance from April to October or visit the year-round exhibition on the bard's life and times.
If, as the Bard wrote, brevity is the soul of wit, the six-second time limit could in fact inspire creativity.
Details are sketchy, but the bard was evidently pursued for tax evasion.
The Royal Shakespeare Company is, of course, located in the Bard's birthplace.
Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca, originally published in 1927, was considered a milestone in Eliot's development as a scholar of the Bard.
The appeal has won support from former Monty Python star Terry Jones, former pathologist Professor Bernard Knight, and the bard Tudur Dylan Jones, he added.
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He then spent 12 months studying the Bard for his BA in English Literature, devouring Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello and Hamlet.
Academics at Aberystwyth University in Wales say that the documents indicate that the bard profited from food shortages by illegally hoarding grain for resale at inflated prices.
And finally, there was the last main ceremony of the week, the chairing of the bard in the pavilion on Friday, which provided a truly historic moment.
If Henry is bitter about his formative introduction to the Bard, it doesn't show, and it hasn't stopped him approaching Shakespeare with childlike gusto in recent years.
Regarded as one of the great modern Shakespearean actors, he last appeared in one of the Bard's plays in Richard III at the Sheffield Crucible in 2002.
Exhibition curator Barrie Cook says the Bard was "one of a handful of really rich theater people" in London, due to his partial ownership of the profitable Globe Theatre.
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From real estate agreements, legal documents, bills for unpaid taxes and Shakespeare's own last will and testament, Greenblatt gleans that the bard's income from penning plays was nothing much.
He also highlighted Achebe's "extraordinary generosity of time and spirit" during more than 20 years as a member of the Bard College community, adding that he will be deeply missed.
Farther uptown, an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, "Finnish Modern Design, 1930-1997" (up through June 14), is a perfect complement to the Aalto retrospective.
The Scottish National Party's Adam Ingram, who led a members' debate, feels the bard needs national protection and wants to see the management of an expanded Burns Centre handed to the National Trust.
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From mid-April through the end of November, the festival will be the biggest and most varied celebration of the Bard ever attempted, with thousands of actors and more than 70 activities, including exhibitions, art installations and cutting-edge performances.
As we democratize language and literacy we have to resist the temptation to see in its evolution a sort of breakdown or moral failure simply because not everyone speaks or writes as well as the Bard or as Ralph Fiennes.
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Built 200 yards from the site of the original theatre where many of Shakespeare's most famous plays made their debut, including Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth, the Globe is putting on four of the Bard's plays this year in celebration of the anniversary.
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