{"id":2317,"date":"2012-04-23T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/23\/today-is-shakespeare-day-or-the-day-that-is\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:52:17","slug":"today-is-shakespeare-day-or-the-day-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/23\/today-is-shakespeare-day-or-the-day-that-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2317 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/23\/today-is-shakespeare-day-or-the-day-that-is\/attachment\/2318\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m2y9d7D0AL1r3qmd1o1_r3_250-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/23\/today-is-shakespeare-day-or-the-day-that-is\/attachment\/2319\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m2y9d7D0AL1r3qmd1o2_r3_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/23\/today-is-shakespeare-day-or-the-day-that-is\/attachment\/2320\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m2y9d7D0AL1r3qmd1o3_r3_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Today is &ldquo;Shakespeare Day,&rdquo; or the day that is known as the birth date and death date of William Shakespeare. Did you know that Shakespeare&rsquo;s works have been translated into Yiddish for the education and enjoyment of Yiddish-speakers? In honor of Shakespeare and National Poetry Month, you can enjoy the famous Sonnet 18 in Yiddish (above) &ndash; available online by <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/nybc210501#page\/n0\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>. You might recognize the English original:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonnet XVIII<br \/><\/strong>by William Shakespeare<\/p>\n<p>Shall I compare thee to a summer&rsquo;s day?<br \/>Thou art more lovely and more temperate:<br \/>Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,<br \/>And summer&rsquo;s lease hath all too short a date:<br \/>Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,<br \/>And often is his gold complexion dimmed,<br \/>And every fair from fair sometime declines,<br \/>By chance, or nature&rsquo;s changing course untrimmed:<br \/>But thy eternal summer shall not fade,<br \/>Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow&#8217;st,<br \/>Nor shall death brag thou wander&#8217;st in his shade,<br \/>When in eternal lines to time thou grow&#8217;st,<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em>Special thanks to David P. Rosenberg for assistance in the library.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is &ldquo;Shakespeare Day,&rdquo; or the day that is known as the birth date and death date of William Shakespeare. Did you know that Shakespeare&rsquo;s works have been translated into Yiddish for the education and enjoyment of Yiddish-speakers? In honor of Shakespeare and National Poetry Month, you can enjoy the famous Sonnet 18 in Yiddish (above) &ndash; available online by clicking here. You might&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[962,384],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-william-shakespeare","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}