I'm all for this. Better him than some of the bastards that get a day named for them.

I bet the grizz dippers would be all over it too.

April 23rd you bastards-

Billy Shakes Birthday! Hail to the Bard!

(Probably his birthday. . .no birth certificates in Elizabethan England. . .they gave baptism certificates after the critter's been alive for three days.)

Why not have a holiday for the man who re-wrote the rules of theater and tragedy for Western Civ?

I always hear of the Germans claiming Shakespeare as one of their own, but for America to do so would be going too far. Perhaps we could have Walt Whitman Day instead? Would make a fun replacement for the Castro Halloween, which is no more.

I am for it, but we gotta start immediately and play Macbeth at Hillary Clinton rallies.

I would only approve of the creation of this holiday if it happens fast- before Bush gets out of office. And to officially begin this holiday, he'd read to everyone on network tv from Richard the 3rd...

He's an awesome playwright so why not?