Twitter Remembers Shakespeare On 400th Anniversary Of Death
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- To tweet or not to tweet. Today, on the 400th anniversary of his death, Shakespeare will live on Twitter's stage.
A 140 character limit is not stopping Twitter from celebrating the prose and poetry of William Shakespeare.
The network will mark 400 years since the playwright died with a special emoji and Twitter users are encouraged to tweet their favorite passages using the hashtag Shakespeare Lives.
Some of the most famous and most quoted scenes from Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, and Twelfth Night will be performed in London and live-streamed on Periscope.
Carmen Kahn, the founder the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater thinks if Shakespeare were alive, he'd be all over social media.
"3,000 people a day came to globe to see his plays and he was always trying to outdo the other playwrights," Kahn said. "He was popular but also insightful."
The theater will be celebrating Shakespeare tonight with a performance of "McBeth."
