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@readshakespeare
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42subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 10 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001980943836 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @readshakespeare |
| Created | Between 1 April 2023 and 31 October 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 6 times, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/readshakespeare |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Aug 2026, 07:41 | 42 | no change |
| 10 Aug 2026, 19:02 | 42 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 5 April 2024 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 3 June 2024. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Measured directly from 3 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
212 reactions across 20 posts, in 7 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 52.4% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 111 | 52.4% | |
| ❤ | 54 | 25.5% | |
| 💯 | 20 | 9.43% | |
| 👏 | 12 | 5.66% | |
| 🔥 | 9 | 4.25% | |
| ✍ | 5 | 2.36% | |
| 💔 | 1 | 0.472% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 20 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 212 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 5 April 2024 to 3 June 2024, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
MESSENGER "Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life." Translation Direct your thoughts towards laughter and joy—both of which can prevent countless illnesses and help you live longer. 💍 The Taming of the Shrew (C) Induction, Scene 2 @readshakespeare 🎭
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LUCRECE The patient dies while the physician sleeps; The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds; Justice is feasting while the widow weeps; Advice is sporting while infection breeds. Translation The patient dies while the doctor sleeps. The orphan starves while the dictator eats. The judge eats and drinks a lot, while the widow cries. Medical opinions become useless while diseases spread. 📜 The Rape of Lucrece (N) …
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DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club. Translation Cupid's arrow is even more powerful than Hercules' club. Meaning Love's power is stronger than physical strength. 💍 Love’s Labour Lost (C) Act 1, Scene 2 🎨 Cupid's Arrows by Léon Perrault @readshakespeare 🎭
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TRANIO No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. Translation No profit is gained from something you take no pleasure in. In short, sir, study what you enjoy the most. 💍 The Taming of the Shrew (C) Act 1, Scene 1 🎨 Audiobook by Pawel Kuczynski @readshakespeare 🎭
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AGAMEMNON He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. Translation Those who are proud harm themselves: pride serves as their own mirror, their own trumpet, and their own record. 🌀Troilus and Cressida (P) Act 2, Scene 3 📸 Seletti's Trumpets Mirror @readshakespeare 🎭
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DROMIO OF SYRACUSE He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. Translation He who must eat with the devil must have a long spoon. Meaning One should be cautious when dealing with dangerous persons. 💍 The Comedy of Errors (C) Act 4, Scene 3 📸 Misericord carved in the late 15th c., St. Georgr's Chapel, Windsor @readshakespeare 🎭
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HAMLET To be, or not to be? That is the question— Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—No more. Translation To live, or to die? That is the question. Is it more honorable to tolerate all the hardships and difficulties of cruel fate, or to fight back against all those troubles and …
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JOAN LA PUCELLE Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. Translation Glory is like a circle in the water, which never stops expanding itself until, by spreading widely, it fades away into nothing. 👑 King Henry VI (H) Act 1, Scene 2 📸 The Sphinx partially excavated, Giza Necropolis, Egypt ©️Library of Congress @readshakespeare 🎭
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VENUS Love is a spirit all compact of fire/Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. Translation Love is a spirit made of fire, not heavy to sink but light and reaching higher. 📜 Venus and Adonis (N) 🎨 Flames of Love by Viktor Bors @readshakespeare 🎭
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HOTSPUR While you live, tell truth and shame the devil! Translation As long as you're alive, tell the truth and shame the devil! 👑 Henry IV (H) Part 1, Act 3, Scene 1 🎨 'Light Painter' by Tang Yau Hoong on Behance @readshakespeare
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OTHELLO Weigh'st thy words before thou giv'st them breath. Translation Think carefully before you speak. 🗡 Othello (T) Act 3, Scene 3 📸 Untitled by Sue.h on Flickr @readshakespeare
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POLONIUS Brevity is the soul of wit. Translation Being brief is the essence of wisdom. 🗡 Hamlet (T) Act 2, Scene 2 @readshakespeare 🎭
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @readshakespeare. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 11 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Read Shakespeare 🎭” (@readshakespeare), 42 subscribers as measured 11 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/readshakespeare.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.