Joseph Fiennes
Annie Lennox
Sir John Gielgud
Alan Rickman
Diana Rigg
Richard Attenborough
Paul Rhys
Juliet Stevenson
Rufus Wainwright
Janet McTeer
Alan Bates
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
David Warner
Siân Phillips
John Hurt
John Potter
Ralph Fiennes
Matthew Rhys
Imelda Staunton
Kenneth Branagh
Fiona Shaw
Henry Goodman
Keb’ Mo’
Susannah York
Timothy Spall
Peter Barkworth
Gemma Jones
Sylvia Syms
Bryan Ferry
Joseph Fiennes
Who will believe my verse in time to come
If it were filled with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellowed with their age
Be scorned, like old men of less truth than tongue
And your true rights be termed a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time
You should live twice, in it, and in my rhyme
Who will believe my verse in time to come was written by William Shakespeare.