SPREYTON honoured Shakespeare in a truly theatrical way when all of Spreyton was a stage on which to honour WiIliam Shakespeare when, on Friday evening, more than 30 people strolled to the village hall in full Elizabethan costume for an entertainment dubbed Sonnets and Sack.

In a tented room laid out as a tavern with trestles and benches, they sat down to a five course Elizabethan style meal – including manchet bread, smoked fish, breast of goose, and primrose and gooseberry posset – washed down with a glass of sack.

Crediton minstrels, the Goliards, provided period musical entertainment on bazooki, recorder and lute whilst London-based actress, Imogen Butler-Cole whose family live in Chagford, read several different speeches from Shakespeare’s plays, taking the floor between courses.

The revels drew to an end with the guests conducted in singing an Elizabethan round.

Organisers Anne Jones and Kay Caldwell said they were delighted that villagers had entered into the spirit of the event by dressing up and that Spreyton had been able to make a contribution to the weekend’s UK-wide celebrations.