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Shakespeare's 448th birthday was celebrated "with pomp, with triumph, and with revelling," as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel officially proclaimed April 23, 2012 as Talk Like Shakespeare Day—a day on which all citizens were "encouraged to express themselves through the incorporation of Shakespearean language and dialect." "Laugh oneself into stitches" viewing the TLS Video Contest Winner, C.G. Bone, and runners-up from Bleeting Heart Productions and Bozell, see where William celebrated his birthday, check out the national coverage of Talk Like Shakespeare Day, and discover in "one fell swoop" the many ways William is alive and well at 448 years old, right here! Read the proclamation! 
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Channel your workplace aggression
Create your own ruff
DIY Shakespeare
Quotes for business
Stories to read aloud
Renaissance Recipes
The Bard on film
Watch animated shorts
Crossword Puzzle
Throw a Shakespeare-themed party
Bard Bell-Ringers
Spend some time with Shakespeare
Become the Bard
Write like
Shakespeare
Hip Hop Shakespeare
More ways to talk like Shakespeare 
Words and phrases still used today
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- Instead of you, say thou or thee (and instead of y’all,
say ye).
- Rhymed couplets are all the rage.
- Men are Sirrah, ladies are Mistress, and your friends are all called Cousin.
- Instead of cursing, try calling your tormenters jackanapes or canker-blossoms or poisonous bunch-back’d toads.
- Don’t waste time saying "it," just use the letter "t" (’tis, t’will, I’ll do’t).
- Verse for lovers, prose for ruffians, songs for clowns.
- When in doubt, add the letters "eth" to the end of verbs (he runneth, he trippeth, he falleth).
- To add weight to your opinions, try starting them with methinks, mayhaps, in sooth or wherefore.
- When wooing ladies: try comparing her to a summer’s day. If that fails, say "Get thee to a nunnery!"
- When wooing lads: try dressing up like a man. If that fails, throw him in the Tower, banish his friends and claim the throne.
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