Discovering Shakespeare

Here are some posters we did in Art for a competition about Shakespeare. You might like to read some of his plays or watch them at the theatre.

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William Shakespeare died on 23rd April 1616. To honour this, UNESCO established 23 April as the International Day of the Book. Spain had adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1582, but England was still using the Julian calendar. Shakespeare's death on 23 April 1616 (Julian) was equivalent to 3 May 1616 (Gregorian). This was 10 days after Miguel de Cervantes was buried and 11 days after he died.