450 Years of Shakespeare!
Celebrate 450 years of the Bard with Perma-Bound! William Shakespeare (1564-1616)—the greatest writer in the English language and the greatest dramatist in world history—was an Elizabethan poet and playwright. A country boy from the village of Stratford-upon-Avon who made it big in the rough-and-ready city of London, Shakespeare mixed barnyard humour with high-flown philosophy, ribaldry with wit, soaring poetry with pointed prose, creating works that upended dramatic and poetic conventions to appeal to the heart as well as the head. The man who observed that “All the world’s a stage” remains a star today, 450 years after his birth. His plays are staged more frequently now than they were in his lifetime, and they’ve been adapted and imitated endlessly. He is nearly the most-quoted English-language author in history (exceeded only by the translators of the King James Bible). Throughout 2014, Perma-Bound joins the rest of the world in recognizing Shakespea