22/04/2016 Newsround


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Morning, guys, Ricky here live with your Friday Newsround.

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I'm at William Shakespeare's old school 400 years on from his death.

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And these kids in Leicester on why the Foxes can

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And hundreds of beacons are lit up for the

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First, it's a big weekend for William Shakespeare fans.

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As celebrations kick off to remeber 400 years since the death of

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Leah is in his birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon,

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for us this morning and inside a very old class room.

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Hello, we are in what would have been William Shakespeare's old

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school. He would have come here from the ages of around five or six, and

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it would have looked something like this. There are no desks, there is a

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teacher at the front of the class, and they are chanting, that is how

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classes that have gone back then. He was responsible for big plays like

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Romeo and Juliet and a Midsummer nights dream and I have been finding

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out why is so important. Without even knowing it,

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we owe quite a lot of the language It's thought he came up with words

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like excellent, gloomy, and even coined the phrase

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"budge an inch." The thing is with Shakespeare,

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you don't have to understand What I love about him is, if you get

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a grasp of characters and themes, And that's happening

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at this school in Cheshire. Kids are tackling one of his more

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complicated tragedies, King Lear. I'll trick him into thinking

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that Father hates him. This class are part of

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the children's Shakespeare Festival. They're rehearsing for a big

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performance at Manchester's Exchange Theatre, and some had never heard

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of William Shakespeare before now. It's just incredible how long his

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plays have been going on for. Until about seven years old,

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I didn't really know about, What I find impressive is the fact

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that he wrote around 38 plays Shakespeare really made a name

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for himself when he travelled to London, and one man who knows

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pretty much everything about Shakespeare is

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author Michael Rosen. A girl from a primary school once

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told me, she said, the thing about Shakespeare is, you get

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to the big stuff really quickly. You get to stuff like love and death

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and greed and jealousy and hate, all those big feelings,

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and you get to them really quickly. For these children, the hope is,

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400 years on from today, everyone will still be

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talking about Britain's This is still functioning school

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today. I am joined by the headmaster. The children in my

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report said that they hope that in 400 years we will still be talking

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about William Shakespeare, are you surprised we are talking about him

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not at all. Genius takes various forms, Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci,

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various places across the world at different times, but William

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Shakespeare and struck upon a, he was born with a genius to write

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poems. -- and Stratford upon Avon. This school is going to be open to

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the public to look around. Pascal, you are experiencing a Tudor lesson,

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how has it been to be experiencing what William Shakespeare went

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through? It is interesting to see what subjects they learnt, Latin,

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rhetoric and greet. Interesting to see how they were taught, they were

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taught plays in Latin. No desks, is not strange? It is fun to have it on

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your lap. Was Shakespeare important? Definitely coming he invented a lot

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of words in English language and made a lot more literate, and I

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Macbeth is amazing. Talking of Macbeth, head online, Michael Rosen

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has broken down Macbeth. It is very gory, going have a listen. We all

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know that Shakespeare was the of comedy. Have a look at some of our

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bloopers, we did not always get our lines right. We will hand back now.

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That is my favourite thing on line today, how many times did you get

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your lines wrong? That is embarrassing, I think about 15

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times. But it was a lot of fun. It is brilliant. Check that out on the

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newsround website. US President Barack Obama

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is in the UK for a three-day visit. He arrived by plane last night

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from Saudi Arabia. Obama is set to talk about how

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he thinks the UK should work He'll also be having some fun

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though, he and First Lady Michelle are having lunch with

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the Queen today. Well, Her Majesty has been

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celebrating her 90th birthday at Windsor Castle by lighting

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the first of nearly 900 beacons, dotted here in the UK

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and around the world. From the Shetland Islands

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in Scotland to Wales' capital While in Gibraltar,

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they beamed this image Arsenal have moved to third spot

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in the Premier League race after beating West Bromwich Albion

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last night. But there were quite a few empty

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seats, with some fans not turning up to watch Alexis Sanchez score twice

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in the first half and take his That's all from me, Newsround's

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back this afternoon.

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