Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Did you know, there is more than one Stratford-Upon-Avon in the world? The most famous, being the birthplace of playwright and poet
William Shakespeare,
but Stratford-Upon-Avon, Victoria,
is Australia's lesser known equivalent...
Well sort of...
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . . .
"Sonnet 18," 1–4
When you arrive in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Victoria, or as the Aussies prefer to call it, Stratford by the river, you notice immediately, how proud the town is to be one of Stratfords of the World...
But apart from a big silver monument to sisterhood, a Shakespeare festival each year, oh and a river called Avon, they are worlds apart...
"The course of true love never did run smooth". Midsummer Night's Dream (Act I, Scene I).
In my local Aussie Stratford, the township dates back to the …
Did you know, there is more than one Stratford-Upon-Avon in the world? The most famous, being the birthplace of playwright and poet
William Shakespeare,
but Stratford-Upon-Avon, Victoria,
is Australia's lesser known equivalent...
Well sort of...
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . . .
"Sonnet 18," 1–4
When you arrive in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Victoria, or as the Aussies prefer to call it, Stratford by the river, you notice immediately, how proud the town is to be one of Stratfords of the World...
But apart from a big silver monument to sisterhood, a Shakespeare festival each year, oh and a river called Avon, they are worlds apart...
"The course of true love never did run smooth". Midsummer Night's Dream (Act I, Scene I).
In my local Aussie Stratford, the township dates back to the …