William Shakespeare: born April 23,1564. Died April 23, 1616
On our trip to London last week we saw eight plays and four major art exhibitions. This was my 17th visit to the city that never ceases to beckon and to delight. As we try to re-adjust our time clocks and restore our depleted energies, I am reminded of a line from Bob Hellenga's new novel PHILOSOPHY MADE SIMPLE that I finished just before we left. He said, "Getting ready to live is easier than actually living, just as getting ready for a journey is easier than actually going on a journey."
We went and we returned and tomorrow is William Shakespeare's birthday. That is worth celebrating for a number of reasons, but for this year it is because one of our exhibition stops last week was a delightful show at the National Portrait Gallery called Searching for Shakespeare. The show was put together to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the National Portrait Gallery and the subject was the first picture ever given to the gallery--the Chandos Portrait of William Shakespeare. The exhibit gathered together literally all of the surviving portraits of the bard plus a number of documents and prints covering Will's life and times. All told a feast for any theatrical historian.
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