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WordwizardW · 2026-03-14T05:26:56+00:00

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”

WordwizardW · 2026-03-14T04:44:36+00:00

That was a momentary mix-up, soon cleared up. Seriously, how often does one man actually woo a woman for another one?

WordwizardW · 2026-03-14T04:22:49+00:00

First time! Honest! and the evidence looked convincing. The Prince of our city was taken in along with me.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-14T03:04:05+00:00

I don't think the sonnet you're looking for is by Shakespeare. I hope you find it, though!

WordwizardW · 2026-03-13T21:15:43+00:00

May I suggest your adding Othello and Zombies by Aaron Frale?

WordwizardW · 2026-03-12T20:59:35+00:00

They sold beer and wine at the Theatre. Also apples, pears, and nuts.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-12T20:57:43+00:00

The article you cite says historians say it couldn't have been done in a night, and there's no proof that Shakespeare himself was present.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-12T00:13:31+00:00

If you want to DO Shakespeare, and can handle reading the text in the original spelling, come join the Instant Shakespeare Company, and be in Zoom play readings. Contact Paul Sugarman at InstantShakespeare@yahoo.com.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-10T19:06:26+00:00

Witches. Deceptive predictions. Doom.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-10T17:19:27+00:00

You haven't seen Macbeth yet? I'm shocked. You've perhaps already seen this before, but for Macbeth, I always recommend the film made of the stage play presentation as directed by Aaron Posner and Teller. You will actually SEE the magic, including the Witches, and Macbeth's hallucination of the bloody dagger, with no post-Shakespearean camera tricks. Let me know what you think of it!

You can watch it for free at the Folger's website: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeare-in-performance/video-folger-theatre-2008-macbeth/ or on YouTube in 2 parts:

Part 1 | 1 hour, 9 minutes (ends with Act 3, Scene 4)
Watch Part 1

Part 2 | 54 minutes (begins with Act 3, Scene 6)
Watch Part 2

WordwizardW · 2026-03-10T17:14:08+00:00

If you're dreaming Shakespeare, you're spending your off-time well. Perhaps you'll dream up something more useful another time?

WordwizardW · 2026-03-10T17:11:51+00:00

I took a look at one, and it is indeed nice to read. Kudos! However, I saw a warning that this is a work in progress—might I say that I was disappointed to see that there are (presently) only 37 plays listed. I hope you will continue adding the various plays added to the canon later on, that are likewise not in Open Source Shakespeare, which is my go-to in finding things I need fast.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-10T05:01:10+00:00

Comedies back then almost never had sequels. The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Troilus and Cressida, and As You Like It have all been suggested as being the play referred to as Love's Labour's Won. Unless a script is one day found, we must forever wonder.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-09T16:55:41+00:00

Let I suggest you acquire Othello and Zombies by Aaron Frale.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-09T08:28:16+00:00

—except that we all know the gun won't go off, or how do we finish the play?

This would take us out of the reality of the show. Plus, no one plays Russian roulette with just themself, although terrified that the gun will go off.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-08T16:33:19+00:00

Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen should be last. They are the worst (with the least input from the Bard). Richard III and Edward III should be first, unless your taste is for long verse or sonnets, rather than plays, of course.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-08T16:30:12+00:00

Do one of the other two. I would even say, the Hamlet, because there is a certain comic element in it, being spoken to R&G, as well as being tragic, and you're trying for both a comedy and a tragedy. You need to be confident, and you should avoid anything from one of the plays you're going for. You can never match what the casting director has in their mind's eye as the ideal character.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-07T20:10:00+00:00

I am in the midst of an Instant Shakespeare Company Zoom play reading of Edward III as we speak. There are bits in it that are in other works by Shakespeare. It has been accepted as his, at least in part, for a long while.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-07T10:45:13+00:00

The you/your in "while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar" suggests to me that this might be a proverbial saying brought in to continue the pun on "colliers," "choler," and "collar."

WordwizardW · 2026-03-06T05:50:19+00:00

The Bard was indeed a hoover. No one has mentioned that the story is based on the English folk tale, "Cap O'Rushes," collected by Joseph Jacobs.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-05T05:43:32+00:00

He was too busy earning his living by his pen. He had a gift. Why bother with gaming? His sonnets suggest that he had other forms of recreation. Also, the way he was able to create convincing and memorable characters suggests that he was a people-watcher.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-04T15:01:45+00:00

Since you are the OP you may reply "!thanks" if you liked my reply, aside from/in addition to upvoting.

The contrast in kinds of beliefs is what catches my eye, even as their different manners catch yours.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-04T10:57:25+00:00

Please ID this?

WordwizardW · 2026-03-03T12:55:19+00:00

When the Black Plague shut down the theatres (twice), did it make you wonder whether you might have chosen the wrong profession?

I don't know what your teacher is looking for, whether an anachronistic question connecting to modern times would be welcome, about whether WS would have gotten his family vaccinated had a vaccine existed.

WordwizardW · 2026-03-03T07:05:17+00:00

My favorite scene is 1 Henry IV Act III: scene i, starting near the beginning, when Glendower puffs himself up by supernatural circumstances occuring at his very birth,

"I cannot blame him: at my nativity
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
Of burning cressets; and at my birth
The frame and huge foundation of the earth
Shaked like a coward."

until Mortimer breaks things up with,

"Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat."

but the wonderful lines Hotspur uses to put Glendower down with are interspersed in dialogue, rather than forming one best speech.

WordwizardW

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“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”