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Bibliophiles Unanimous!: Shakespeare Birthday Extravaganza!!! 4/23/23
April 23, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight;
And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:
Beloved Bibliophiles!
This year is the 400th Anniversary of the “First Folio” of Mr. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARES COMEDIES, HISTORIES, & TRAGEDIES. Shakespeare’s Birthday, April 23rd, falls on the day we do our next Bibliophiles Unanimous! Zoom gathering–at 3 p.m. (PDT). To celebrate, an all-star lineup of actors is going to read scenes and speeches from Shakespeare’s plays.
DON’T MISS THIS!!!
peace, love & poetry
Johnny
Bottom. There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisbe that will never please. First, Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself, which the ladies cannot abide. How answer you that?
Snout. By’r lakin, a parlous fear.
Starveling. I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.
Bottom. Not a whit. I have a device to make all well. Write me a prologue, and let the prologue seem to say we will do no harm with our swords, and that Pyramus is not killed indeed. And for the more better assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am not Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver. This will put them out of fear.