About a Bard

knot garden (#10), this one at Barnsley House, Gloucestershire

This year, marking as it does the 400th anniversary of the death of that bard William Shakespeare (1564-1616), someone thought it appropriate to compile a lovely list entitled "Shakespeare in 100 Objects." Well (spoiler alert), it's 99, actually. Number 100 seems to have ensconced itself somewhere in the nether regions of cyberspace. Still, 99's a goodly number. Each object comes with an annotated post written by an expert in that field (and comments, some of which are also enlightening) explaining the artifact and its significance. There are things like horn cores (#90), a 'cubborde of boxes' (#86), Shakespeare's signet ring (#64), a bodkin (#44), and a solstice dish (#2): http://findingshakespeare.co.uk/category/shakespeares-100
   And for even more Elizabethan entertainment, you might check out "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare," free for the taking: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/