Chicago has a yearlong festival,but there are lots of other celebrations across the US, including a tour of the First Folio of the Bard’s plays that will visit every stateWhile the UK is fittingly having commemorations galore to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death on 23 April 1616, and America is also offering a robust complement of events. And these quadricentennial events are taking region in locations across the nation.
At the forefront of America’s commemoration is Chicago. The midwest cultural capital,which wasn’t founded until some two centuries after Shakespeare’s death, is now promising to honour his memory like nowhere else with Shakespeare 400 Chicago, and the purported “largest global” quadricentennial celebration.
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Source: theguardian.com