Shakespeare revives, gets vaccinated and dies: the confusion of an Argentine on TV

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Shakespeare revives, gets vaccinated and dies: the confusion of an Argentine on TV

“An Argentine television host became the amusement of Internet users after confusing in an unusual way the famous playwright William Shakespeare with a recently deceased namesake in the United Kingdom.
William Shakespeare was the greatest English-language writer in history but also a British industrialist who worked for many years in a Rolls-Royce factory. He died in 1564 but also in 2021. Although the confusion seems absurd, the homonyms hilariously mixed in the head of an Argentine television presenter and made her viral.

“We are going with information that leaves us with our mouths open at the magnitude of this man,” introduced Noelia Novillo, a host of the Argentine Channel 26, during a news segment.
Immediately, he expanded: “We are talking about William Shakespeare and his death. We are going to tell the reason, we are going to tell the why.”

What followed was not any new historical revelation about the death of the celebrated 16th-century playwright but rather about an 81-year-old namesake who rose to fame in December 2020 as the second person – and th

An Argentine television host became the amusement of Internet users after confusing in an unusual way the famous playwright William Shakespeare with a recently deceased namesake in the United Kingdom.
William Shakespeare was the greatest English-language writer in history but also a British industrialist who worked for many years in a Rolls-Royce factory. He died in 1564 but also in 2021. Although the confusion seems absurd, the homonyms hilariously mixed in the head of an Argentine television presenter and made her viral.

“We are going with information that leaves us with our mouths open at the magnitude of this man,” introduced Noelia Novillo, a host of the Argentine Channel 26, during a news segment.
Immediately, she expanded: “We are talking about William Shakespeare and his death. We are going to tell the reason, we are going to tell the why.”

What followed was not any new historical revelation about the death of the celebrated 16th-century playwright but rather about an 81-year-old namesake who rose to fame in December 2020 as the second person – and the first male – in the United Kingdom to receive a vaccine against COVID-19.

The Shakespeare vaccinated against COVID-19 returned to the front pages of the international media on May 25, 2021, when he died of complications unrelated to the pandemic or the vaccine received.

In the heat of presenting the news – illustrated with images from current Shakespeare – Novillo confused both characters and paid the local industrialist and councilor praise that actually corresponded to the author of classics such as Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet.

“As we know, he is one of the most important writers, for me the benchmark of the English language. There we see him,” Novillo launched, while images of the octogenarian receiving a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at Coventry University Hospital were broadcast. 

How could it be otherwise, an excerpt from the video went viral on social networks, making the young host a laughingstock on the internet. She apparently took it with humor: “I love you. Thank you so much, beauties,” she wrote on her Twitter account.

In an unexpected turn of fate – one of those that the playwright liked – the Fundación Shakespeare Argentina, dedicated to the dissemination of the writer in the South American country, thanked the journalist, since her slip placed Shakespeare as a trend on Twitter.

Perhaps even the original Shakespeare would have amused himself with the unfortunate confusion to include it in one of his famous comedies”.

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