National Shakespeare Week- Emma Johnson 8E

National Shakespeare Week

This week it's National Shakespeare Week, the annual celebration of Shakespeare's work.

'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.' ~ William Shakespeare.

Some of the most famous lines from Shakespeare's sonnets, plays, poems are:

• "To be, or not to be" 
•  "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"
•  "I'll not budge an inch"
•  "We have seen better days"
•  "A dish fit for the gods"
•  "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
•  "T’is neither here nor there."

Some famous films based on Shakespeare are:

• Gnomeo and Juliet-2011
• Romeo and Juliet-1996
• Hamlet-1996
• Macbeth-2015
• A Midsummers Night's Dream-1935
• The Tempest-2010
• West Side Story-1961
• Plus 50 more!