<story><title>William Shakespeare, Playwright and Poet, Is Dead at 52</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/23/arts/shakespeare-obituary.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=mini-moth&amp;region=top-stories-below&amp;WT.nav=top-stories-below&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>themartorana</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Shakespeare was the most commonly used spelling in his day, but by the 18th century, the version most favored was Shakespear, and only in the 20th century did Shakespeare become the standard. Interestingly, of the six surviving signatures the great man himself left behind, not one is spelled Shakespeare.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;He must have gotten it wrong. Thank goodness we&amp;#x27;ve corrected it for him. Not like he was particularly good at English.</text></comment>
<story><title>William Shakespeare, Playwright and Poet, Is Dead at 52</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/23/arts/shakespeare-obituary.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=mini-moth&amp;region=top-stories-below&amp;WT.nav=top-stories-below&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>In an intersection of recent topics in HN, I highly recommend the Globe&amp;#x27;s 2012 rendition of &lt;i&gt;Twelfth Night&lt;/i&gt;, in which Stephen Fry plays Malvolio. I was never so much a fan of his as most seem to be around here, but his performance was frankly good, if somewhat similar to the character from &lt;i&gt;Blackadder II&lt;/i&gt;. As for the rest of the cast, they range from solid to excellent.</text></comment>