The Bard Needs Some New Digs

by Critical Todd | May 28, 2008 at 04:51 am
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Hamlet's Yorick Speech
Do not taunt Shakespeare's bones.
Fix the gravesite. But don't touch the bones. That's the work order, in a nutshell, for brave architects contemplating a fixup job for the deteriorating gravesite of William Shakespeare at the Holy Trinity Church in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon.
Surely the great poet wouldn't begrudge a little toil and trouble to upkeep his earthly abode?

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at 05:41 on May 28th, 2008

Critical Todd, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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I'm sure the gravediggers will be tempted to grab his skull, hold it up contemplatively and bust out a quick soliloquy.

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