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On Thursday--April 23 being the accepted date for the Bard of Avon’s birth--members of the Shakespeare Society of America announced plans to launch a campaign to rename a presently unnamed stretch of beach that fronts Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach as Shakespeare Beach. The beach was originally named in honor of the poet in 1900 but the name was dropped for no apparent reason, society member R. Thad Taylor asserted. “To this day, on deeds, legal descriptions and historical documents, the Shakespeare moniker still exists,” he said.