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
Why is my verse so barren of new pride
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same
And keep invention in a noted weed
That every word doth almost tell my name
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O know, sweet love, I always write of you
And you and love are still my argument
So all my best is dressing old words new
Spending again what is already spent:
For as the sun is daily new and old
So is my love still telling what is told
Why is my verse so barren of new pride was written by William Shakespeare.