Patrick Stewart Will Be Reading Shakespeare on Social Media For Fans During This Time of Self-Quarantine
With millions of people around the world in self-quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic, people are trying to find ways to stay entertained and keep themselves from going stir-crazy. It’s a time where a lot of people need their spirits lifted, and that where Patrick Stewart comes into the picture!
Before the actor landed the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, he was best known as a Shakespearean actor. Well, he’s returned to his roots and is starting to share videos of himself on Twitter of him reading Shakespeare.
The first video was shared on Saturday as he recited Shakespeare's Sonnet 116. After a strong response from fans, on Sunday he shared some wisdom from his mother on the current crisis, saying, "I was delighted by the response to yesterday's posting of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, and it has led me to undertake what follows…"
He then added:
"When I was a child in the 1940s, my mother would cut up slices of fruit for me (there wasn't much) and as she put it in front of me she would say, ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away.’ How about, ‘A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away’? So...here we go: Sonnet 1."
From there, he goes on to beautifully recite Sonnet 1 and it looks like he plans to recite the sonnets for as long as this quarantine continues. Enjoy two of the videos he’s posted below.