The Illustrated Poems of William Shakespeare
The Illustrated William Shakespeare offers 25 of his most beloved poems alongside stunning colour collage artwork, if you feel that you really should read Shakespeare, but want some easy bedtime reading!
If you have a bookish child, treat them to a boxed collection of 20 Shakespeare plays.
Who Was William Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare was a wealthy property developer (with left-wing political views). All his relatives died with no children, so he has no direct descents.
Despite stories of other people writing some of his plays, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust refutes this. Some believe that Edward de Vere (the Earl of Oxford) wrote them.
Like Bath, London and the Lake District, Stratford-upon-Avon is now suffering from ‘over-tourism’, due to being his birthplace and site of his home.
The town is now so commercial, that apparently China is soon to build its own version (just like Las Vegas builds its own versions of worldwide towers and bridges).
And political correctness has gone mad here. Following media criticism that to call Shakespeare ‘the greatest living writer’ is ‘white supremacy’, they should study the history. In 1833, black actor Ira Aldridge played Othello on the London stage, and since then it’s rare for a white actor to play him.
This mirrors some who criticised the author of the Paddington Bear books, because he came from ‘darkest Peru’. In fact, Michael Bond was inspired to write his tales of the polite kind bear, after his own family would shelter refugees in the war.
His notion for creating the books, was actually to foster compassion and acceptance for people from abroad. Paddington Bear was the original illegal immigrant! What would Nigel Farage say?
