SHAKESPEARE AND CERVANTES' WEEK

How well he's read, to reason against reading.

William Shakespeare

On April 23rd 1616, two giants of Spanish and English literature died. Spain's Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, one of the world's greatest novels, died in Madrid at 69 years of age. England's William Shakespeare, author of wonderful poetry and many great plays, also died in England at the age of 52(April 23rd was also his birthday).
People throughout the world are celebrating today World Book Day, to honor these two great figures of Universal Literature.

Here's a jewel from the Spanish National Library, the interactive Don Quixote.

And here you have one of Shakespeare's sonnets, get inspired!!

SONNET 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.