Aug 9, 1386: King Henry V of England is born in Monmouth Castle. #OTD buff.ly/gBRSRyr

I'll fight at sea. Antony and Cleopatra (3.7) #ShakespeareSunday

I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop. Comedy of Errors (1.2) #ShakespeareSunday

O nuncle, court holy water in a dry house is better than this rain water out o' door. King Lear (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday

Aug 11, 1596: William Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet, is buried in Stratford-upon-Avon. #OTD #Shakespeare buff.ly/hAWHJgd

Renovated Delacorte Theater reopens with new production of Shakespeare in the Park buff.ly/6609Itq #Shakespeare in the Park returns to the Delacorte for the fist time since 2023 with the classic comedy Twelfth Night.

Aug 12, 30 BC: Cleopatra commits suicide in Alexandria, ending the Ptolemaic dynasty. #OTD

The Two Gentlemen of Verona – The Other Place, Stratford upon Avon | buff.ly/qQKWTQJ

Aug 14, 1040: King Duncan I of Scotland dies in battle at Bothnagowan. #OTD buff.ly/HiDOAPD

Shakespeare’s popularity continues to blossom in our area. Why? buff.ly/9bypJG0

The Real Macbeth’s Bloody Rise buff.ly/8PoHroh Late summer has a lot of Macbeth-related historical anniversaries. Most people only know Macbeth through #Shakespeare's play. What was the real story that behind the drama?

Aug 15, 1057: King Macbeth is mortally wounded when his army is defeated by the future King Malcolm III at the Battle of Lumphanan. #OTD

Aug 15, 1594: Playwright Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy, is buried in St Mary Colechurch in London. #OTD buff.ly/pp4gk4B

Aug 16, 1637: Playwright Ben Jonson dies in London at the age of 65. #OTD

Aug 16, 1641: Playwright Thomas Heywood is buried at St. James's Church in Clerkenwell. #OTD

’Tis a kind of good deed to say well. And yet words are no deeds. Henry VIII (3.2) #ShakespeareSunday

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol’n forth of Holy Writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. Richard III (1.3) #ShakespeareSunday

If you do sweat to put a tyrant down, You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain. Richard III (5.3) #ShakespeareSunday

Bloody thou art; bloody will be thy end. Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend. Richard III (4.4) #ShakespeareSunday

Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival buff.ly/ydN1ZIs Christopher Marlowe was a radical, the inventor of blank verse, a master of internal monologue, and a victim of murder--and perhaps the Bard’s key creative influence.