Camden Shakespeare Company

01/05/2022

03/11/2020

https://www.ranker.com/list/words-invented-by-shakespeare/carly-kiel?ref=collections_btm&l=2463139&collectionId=819&li_source=LI&li_medium=desktop-bottom-collection

In addition to 36 plays teenagers are forced to read in high school, William Shakespeare also wrote something like 1,700 English words for the very first time. While many were new verb or adjectival forms or even just compound words he squished together, others, like "articulate,&qu...

03/07/2020

The Bard 2020

03/07/2020

This is excellent.

Summer 1914. In order to dedicate themselves to a life of study, the King and his friends take an oath to avoid the company of women for three years. No soon...

09/12/2019

From Mentalfloss...

Despite his many contributions to English literature, surprisingly little is known about William Shakespeare's life. Here's what we do know about the celebrated actor, poet, and playwright.

09/12/2019

From the website Mentalfloss..

Despite his many contributions to English literature, surprisingly little is known about William Shakespeare's life. Here's what we do know about the celebrated actor, poet, and playwright.

07/25/2019

A man can die but once; we owe God a death.
Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act III, scene 2, line 250.

Never was there a finer man....

Camden — Harold H. (Hal) Owen Jr., also of Matinicus Island, passed away peacefully July 18, 2019, of self-described “high mileage.” He was 94. His five children were present to see him off on his next adventure.

04/24/2019

https://owlcation.com/humanities/12-Facts-about-William-Shakespeare

William Shakespeare. Called the greatest writer of the English language that there has ever been, but slated by critics in his own time. Twelve facts that you might not have known about Shakespeare.

12/09/2018

Shakespearte only mentions Christmas in his plays three times. This one is from Hamlet...

Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad;
The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallowed and so gracious is the time.