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Louisiana Tech’s English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta is hosting a series of events as part of “Shakespearit,” the Sixth Annual Shakespeare Birthday Festival, April 23 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the GTM Courtyard.

The schedule of events is as follows:

• 9:00:  Greetings – Don Kaczvinsky & Susan Roach
• 9:30:  Bone-Rattling Banshees of the Bard – Mark Guinn & Stage Combatants
• 10:00:  Quelques Sonnets de Shakespeare – Dolliann Hurtig & French Students
• 10:30:  Zombies & Other Dead Things – Ken Robbins
• 11:00:  ShakesCHEER Competition – English Majors v. Theatre Majors
• 11:30:  Shakespeare’s Supernatural Bestiary – Jeffrey Yule
• 12:00:  Renaissance Music – Cain Budds & Sean Teets
• 12:30:  Wil’yam Shex’pir, Klingon: What it Means to be Human – Greg Schelonka
• 1:00:  Shakespeare’s Puppeteers – Marcy Culpepper, Celia Lewis, Scott Levin, Christine Strebeck
• 1:30:  Shakespearean Drinking Games – Ernest Rufleth
• 2:00:  The Taming of the Space Shrew – David Merchant
• 2:30:  The Royal Commentaries: Inca Garcilaso de la Vega – Paul Nelson & Spanish Students
• 3:00:  Smells Like Shakespearit – Patrick Boyd
• 3:30:  Farewells – Dorothy Dodge Robbins & Derek Warden

Shakespearit (shāk-spîr΄ĭt) n., alternate spelling Shakespirit: 1. Enthusiasm for William Shakespeare, his oeuvre, or his historical and cultural times. 2. In the style of or inspired by Shakespeare.  3. Pertaining to ghosts, sprites, fairies, and other ethereal creatures in works by Shakespeare. 4. Reference to distilled beverage (shaken, not stirred) imbibed by the Bard or his characters.