Shakespeare Week 12-18 March 2018 - quotations you may know and places to visit

Shakespeare. From Wikipedia. Photo by Brice Stratford. See Wikipedia for permissions.

Shakespeare is the worl'd best selling author of fiction.

Born: 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon

Died: 23 April 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon

Spouse: Anne Hathaway (m. 1582–1616)

Problem
Shakesepeare's birthday is celebrated on April 23rd. We can't be sure of the exact day, but he was baptised on April 26th and it was usual in those days to be baptised the third day after birth. Since he also died on April 23rd, that seems a suitable date. St George's Day is also April 23rd, so a good day to celebrate Shakespeare and England and the English language.

1 Shakespeare said so many things we quote. How can I remember them?
2 Where can I go to learn more about Shakespeare?

Answers
QUOTATIONS
Wikiquote will sort you out. Not just the quotations but exactly which play and where the words come from and who spoke the words. These are my favourites, short and easy to remember:

As You Like It (1599–1600)[edit]

Main article: As You Like It

• All the world's a stage,
  And all the men and women merely players:
  They have their exits and their entrances;
  And one man in his time plays many parts.
  • Jaques, Act II, scene vii.

Hamlet (1600–1)[edit]

Main article: Hamlet

• Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
  
  • Polonius, Act I, scene iii.

• To be or not to be, that is the question.
• Hamlet, Act III, scene i.

• HENRY

  Act III[edit]

  
  

  Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
  Or close the wall up with our English dead!
  • Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
    • King Henry, scene i

• Julius Caesar (1599)[edit]

  Main article: Julius Caesar (play)

  • Cowards die many times before their deaths;
    
    • Caesar, Act II, scene ii.
  • Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
    I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
    The evil that men do lives after them;
    The good is oft interred with their bones.
    • Antony, Act III, scene ii.

    • The Merchant of Venice (1596–7)[edit]

      Main article: The Merchant of Venice

      • All that glisters is not gold.
      • Prince of Morocco, reading Portia's note, Act II, scene vii; this is the source of the popular paraphrase "All that glitters is not gold."

• Twelfth Night (1601)[edit]

  Main article: Twelfth Night

  • If music be the food of love, play on.
  • Orsino, Act I, scene i.

  • Timon of Athens (1605)[edit]

    Main article: Timon of Athens

    • We have seen better days.
      • Flavius, Act IV, scene ii.

      • Macbeth (1606)[edit]

        Main article: Macbeth

        • Come what come may,
          
          • Macbeth, Act I, scene iii.
        • Is this a dagger which I see before me,
          
          • Macbeth, Act II, scene i.
  
  
  CANADA
  The Stratford Festival is an internationally recognized annual repertory theatre festival running annually from April to October in the city of Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
   

UK
Your obvious first choice is the UK, starting with Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford upon Avon. But if you are just in London, you can visit the reproduction round theatre, as well as a monument to Shakespeare in a church, and see his bust on the front of the Guildhall building.

POLAND
Every year in August in Gdansk.

Visits
POLAND
http://esfn.eu/festivals/the-gdansk-shakespeare-festival
http://www.gdansk.pl/en/

UK
Reproduction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England

Reproduction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England. Photo by Another Believer in Wikipedia. See Wikipedia for copyright terms.

Stratford upon Avon:
Shakespeare's Birthplace
Anne Hathaway's Cottage
Theatre
Shakespeare's Grave in Holy Trinity Church

Shakespeare's grave in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, UK. Photo from Wikipedia, originally in Flickr by David Jones. 

London, England
Theatre
Reprodcution of the circular Shakeapsear's theatre in the round.
About ten minutes walk from London Bridge underground station. On the banks of the Thames, near the Tate Modern art gallery and the bridge over the Thames river.
The Globe
21 New Globe Walk
Bankside
London SE1 9DT.
Great website with clear directions on how to get there and an aerial video of the theatre.

Church
Bust on Guildhall

Shakespeare bust on outside wall of Guildhall, London, England. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

visitbritain.com
http://www.shakespearesglobe.com (London, England)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

If you want your own Shakespeare bust, for your home or a museum or celebration of play, it will cost you about £66 plus delivery. A bust suitable for indoors might not be suitable for the garden, but one suitable for the garden might do for indoors. However, it depends whther you want a smooth surface or something more robust and weather-proof.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ceramic-William-Shakespeare-Bust-Statue/dp/B007R61UO0

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I have other posts on Guildhall. Please share links to your favourite posts.