Free entry to bard lovers with a beard.TO HAVE a beard or not to have a beard? That is the question for visitors to William Shakespeare's home town this weekend. To mark National Beard Week, The Shakespeare Birthplace birth·place n. The place where someone is born or where something originates. birthplace Noun the place where someone was born or where something originated Noun 1. Trust, in Stratford, is offering free admission to anyone who sports facial hair Noun 1. facial hair - hair on the face (especially on the face of a man) hair - a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair at the site of the bearded bard's cradle. No charge will be taken for entry to the house and gardens as long as beardy-types don't show-up with painted beards or stubble. The offer only applies on Saturday and Sunday. Professor Stanley Wells Stanley William Wells (born May 21 1930) is a Shakespeare scholar, who was Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham) from 1988-1997. He is now Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies. , chairman of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, said: "We hope you enjoy a day out on us. "I'm not sure whether it's a trend amongst academics, or a sign of intellectual greatness, but there is certainly a higher than average number of 'beards' here at the Trust, some of which come and go. I guess we could be called a 'beardfriendly employer'. We couldn't resist having a bit of fun with 'beard week', after all Shakespeare almost certainly sported some proud facial hair and often wrote very fondly of beards in his plays." |
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