Reconstructed Globe Theatre, London

Shakespeare's formal education ended at age 15.  He plunged into London's theater scene as an actor and writer in the late 1580s, and by 1611 he had written the most highly regarded collection of plays in history, including A Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Many of our modern words and phrases can be attributed to the English Bard's pen, including "To be or not to be ~ that is the question," "Out damned spot!" "All the world's a stage," "Friends, Romans, countrymen," "Beware the ides of March," and "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

Today in The Neat L'l Bookshop Neil Paul will share with us his attendance this summer at Othello.  Everyone welcome.  1:00 p.m. or whenever you can drop in!

Source:  Treasury of Wit & Wisdom, Reader's Digest, 2006.