Learn English through Shakespeare is everywhere | Christopher Gaze
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Hello.
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You've been eating Pop-Tarts.
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(Laughter)
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I resisted. It looks fantastic though.
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Well now, what a day we're having, absolutely inspirational, fantastic.
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I saw Romeo Dallaire remark on these geese earlier on,
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and I considered these geese, Canada geese.
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They're all over the world, you know.
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(Laughter)
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They're taking over the world. A bit like Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare surrounds us.
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The Shakespeare we're enormously familiar with,
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but the Shakespeare that we know and we don't know.
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And of course, every day, we're quoting Shakespeare but we don't know it.
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Shakespeare – We don't know a great deal about the man.
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What we know about him is generally through his works.
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He was a man, just like you and me,
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he lived his life, felt great joy and great sadness,
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tremendous success and great tragedy.
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In Canada – talk about Shakespeare surrounding us –
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we have the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario,
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that's the biggest theatre festival, I might add, in North America.
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We have... that's right!
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(Applause)
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We have Bard on the Beach Shakespeare here in Vancouver.
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We've got Shakespeare festivals in between. In America,
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Americans love their Shakespeare,
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they have Ashland, Oregon,
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lots of Shakespeare's festivals through America.
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You have The Globe in London,
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and, of course, The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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So, Shakespeare is alive and well, but since you leapt out of bed this morning,
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and you've had this wonderful day here,
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I'm sure most of you are very much unaware
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that you've been quoting Shakespeare all day.
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Let me give you a bunch of examples.
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First of all, I want you to do something for a change.
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When I point at you and beckon you on,
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I want you to say, "Quoting Shakespeare".
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Now, come on, with all that energy from the Pop-Tarts,
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give it a go.
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Audience: Quoting Shakespeare