Over the weekend, Sir Patrick Stewart, a legendary screen actor who was also a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for over 15 years, decided to share a video of himself reciting an old classic: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116! Just because theaters are shut down for a while, doesn’t mean you can’t get your Shakespeare fix! Watch below:
2. When I was a child in the 1940s, my mother would cut up slices of fruit for me (there wasn't much) and as she put it in front of me she would say, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." How about, “A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away”? So…here we go: Sonnet 1. pic.twitter.com/kDoMNhdqcI
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) March 22, 2020