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When we started planning Planet Word, since no one had ever visited a word museum, people had lots of assumptions about what it would be like.<\/p>\n

One of the most-often asked questions we get is whether we\u2019ll have a lot of exhibits about Shakespeare.<\/p>\n

And we had to tell people that, no, Planet Word is built on experiences with words and language of all kinds, so our galleries don\u2019t focus on a single author or a single topic of scholarship.<\/p>\n

But as it turns out, Shakespeare has visited Planet Word even if we didn\u2019t visit Shakespeare.<\/p>\n

On this, his proclaimed 456th birthday \u2014 there\u2019s still a bit of controversy whether this is actually the date or not \u2014 we thought we might celebrate this inescapable giant of words, by showing you all the ways he\u2019s made his presence known at Planet Word.<\/p>\n

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Colorful displays on the talking word wall illustrate the story of the English language<\/p><\/div>\n

Right away, in our first gallery, called \u201cWhere Do Words Come From?<\/a>\u201d, Shakespeare makes a big appearance. In this gallery, about the origins of words in the English language, you\u2019ll talk with a towering, 22-foot-high wall of 1200 3-dimensional words \u2014 and it will talk back to you, responding to your requests with stories about all sorts of ways words have entered English, including through our own invention.<\/p>\n

Our talking Word Wall traces the ways that Shakespeare added some thousand words to the English lexicon \u2014 he may not have invented them all, but he was the first to write them down.\u00a0So next time you use a brand new Covid-19 word invention \u2014 like super-spreader or social-distancing or the acronym WFH<\/em>, imagine yourself part of a long line of people, including Shakespeare, who add words to English when we need new terms to describe the world around us.<\/p>\n

Shakespeare also makes a cameo appearance in our magical Library gallery, where we are bringing books of all genres and for all ages to life.\u00a0Through the wonders of projection technology, you\u2019ll watch characters emerge from illustrations or hear celebrities tell why that book was important to them or see cookbook recipes sizzling on the table in front of you.\u00a0In this gallery, Shakespeare is represented by \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u00a0.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A prototype of \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u201d coming to life in Planet Word\u2019s magical library<\/p><\/div>\n

And in the library\u2019s Poetry Nook<\/a>, where visitors will enjoy hearing and seeing the words of 50 poems, from Chaucer through the most contemporary spoken word poetry, of course we had to include a sonnet by the bard.<\/p>\n

In our humor gallery, visitors will tell jokes to each other and keep score as they try to make each other laugh.\u00a0 They can take selfies with a 3-D prop to bring a funny pun or idiom to life. And here again, Shakespeare has left his mark \u2014 one of the idioms you can act out is \u201cin a pickle,\u201d which is an expression from Shakespeare\u2019s play The Tempest.<\/em>\u00a0You can put yourself inside a big cutout pickle and see if your friends can guess the phrase you\u2019re acting out. And some of the jokes in the gallery are knock-knock jokes, and believe it or not, the phrase \u201cknock knock\u201d comes out of Macbeth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Even in our advertising copywriting gallery, \u201cI\u2019m Sold,\u201d we show how two different ads, one for an Apple computer and one for Oxford University Press, played on that most famous line from Hamlet, \u201cto be or not to be,\u201d to make their copy fun and memorable.<\/p>\n

So thanks for stopping by Planet Word, Will.\u00a0We know you\u2019ve made our museum richer for your presence. And Happy Birthday!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ann Friedman, founder, Planet Word<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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