This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme, one chosen by @westminsterabbey.bsky.social a few years back and still feels perfect for Easter Sunday: NEW LIFE!

During the '17 Women's March, I tweeted "I marched today for women because when I needed them most to, women marched for me." Gay rights, feminism, abortion, anti-war, pro-education, conservation, clean water, against drunk driving, etc. Women have always been at the forefront of resistance & change

" A perilous gash, a very limb lopp'd off:" - Henry IV pt1 (A4, S1) #ShakespeareSunday

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: All things MEDICAL!

“balm to heal their wounds” - Henry VI, Part 3 (Act 4, Scene 8) #ShakespeareSunday #LifeofBrian @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“the nurse of judgment” - Henry VIII (Act 2, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday #StrangerThings @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“ I do remember an apothecary” - R&J (Act 5, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #Friends @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“Throw physic to the dog” - Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 3) #ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“hang thy medicine on my lips” - King Lear (Act 4, Scene 7) #ShakespeareSunday #BatmanBegins @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft” - Timon of Athens (Act 5, Scene 4) #ShakespeareSunday #TheCorpseBride @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“This disease is beyond my practice.” - Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #GWTW @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“‘Tis known I ever have studied physic, through which secret art by turning o’er authorities, I have, together with my practice, made familiar to me and to my aid the blessed infusions” - Pericles (Act 3, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday #DeadPoetsSociety @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“you have given me life and living” - The Merchant of Venice (Act 5, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #YoungFrankenstein @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope” - Measure for Measure (Act 3, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #PatchAdams @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social Theme: Medical

This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: All things MEDICAL!

[Enter ROBERT and the BASTARD] - King John (I, 1) #ShakespeareSunday

Good morning! Welcome to a theme free #ShakespeareSunday!

“Come, let’s away to prison.” - King Lear (Act 5, Scene 3) #ShakespeareSunday #Bridgerton @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“sweet as springtime flowers.” - The Taming of the Shrew (Act 2, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #MaryPoppins #@hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“From this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.” - Macbeth (Act 4, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #Bridgerton @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“or else one must come in with a bush of thorns” - AMND (Act 3, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #Shrek @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“Will you have her? She is herself a dowry.” - King Lear (Act 1, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #Bridgerton @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day” - The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Act 1, Scene 3) #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social ~ Branch Brook Park Newark, New Jersey, has the largest collection of cherry blossom trees in the U.S.

“Well, bear you well in this new spring of time” - Richard II (Act 5, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“the sweet smell of different flowers in odour and in hue” - Sonnet 98 #ShakespeareSunday #Bambi @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“who are the violets now that strew the green lap of the new come spring?” - Richard II (Act 5, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday #AliceinWonderland @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social Theme-free

Let's have a THEME FREE #ShakespeareSunday weekend!

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Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme celebrates #MothersDay: MOTHERS & CHILDREN!

“Like to a stepdame or a dowager” - AMND (Act 1, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #DowntonAbbey @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“Grief fills the room up of my absent child” - King John (Act 3, Scene 4) #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social ~ All the Empty Rooms documentary

“The earth, that’s nature’s mother” - R&J (Act 2, Scene 3) #ShakespeareSunday #Moana @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“We are their parents” - AMND (Act 2, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #TheBradyBunch @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“The Fairyland buys not the child of me.” - AMND (Act 2, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #SleepingBeauty @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“O mother, mother!  What have you done?” - Coriolanus (Act 5, Scene 3) #ShakespeareSunday #Tangled @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“This diamond was my mother’s. (⌜She offers a  ring.⌝)  Take it, heart” - Cymbeline (Act 1, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #Bridgerton @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“As mild and gentle as the cradle babe” - Henry VI, Part 2 (Act 3, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday #Dumbo @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“thou art the midwife” - Richard II (Act 2, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday #CalltheMidwife @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“Thy mother was a piece of virtue” - The Tempest (Act 1, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday #ForrestGump @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social Theme: Mothers and Children

This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme celebrates #MothersDay: MOTHERS & CHILDREN!

Today #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @shakescenery.bsky.social: NEW & BLUE!

“If there be nothing new, but that which is Hath been before” - Sonnet 59 #ShakespeareSunday #Sherlock @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“Under these windows, white and azure laced With blue of heaven's own tinct.” - Cymbeline (Act 2, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social ~ Bermuda, 2023

“And when the cross blue lightning seemed to open The breast of heaven, I did present myself Even in the aim and very flash of it.” - Julius Caesar (Act 1, Scene 3) #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“With hand armipotent from forth blue clouds The masoned turrets, that both mak'st and break'st” - The Two Noble Kinsmen (Act 5, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“So all my best is dressing old words new, Spending again what is already spent” - Sonnet 76 #ShakespeareSunday #TheShining @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“For as the sun is daily new and old” - Sonnet 76 #ShakespeareSunday #LoTR @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“as blue as bilberry.” - The Merry Wives of Windsor (Act 5, Scene 5) #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“To me are nothing novel, nothing strange” - Sonnet 123 #ShakespeareSunday #GroundhogDay @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

“And round about her tear-stained eye Blue circles stream'd; like rainbows in the sky” - The Rape of Lucrece #ShakespeareSunday #LoTR @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social