Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for January 19, 2018
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January 22, 2018
Transcript:
richard's poor amanac presents- shakespeare's birthday by richard thompson fun page! 1. 2. 3. 4. who wrote it? for centuries scholars, experts & plain everyday folk have argued about who really wrote shakespeare's works. do you know? is it 1. shakespeare, 2. christopher marlowe, 3. francis bacon or 4. barky the wonder elizabethan-play-writing dog? help hamlet avenge his father's murder! hurry! time's-a wastin'! go. oops! you dithered too long! your uncle got away! plus, ophelia drowned herself. find six things wrong with this staging of shakeseare's "a midsummer night's dream" 1, it's daytime. 2, inappropriate gory murder. 3, hermia is poorly-cast. 4, alligator should be a donkey. 5, set left over from "death of a salesman.: 6, the theater-goer sitting behind you keeps coughing down your neck.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 6 years ago
My money’s on Barky.
fritzoid Premium Member over 6 years ago
Claudius doesn’t get away. He’s dead at the end just like Ophelia. And Hamlet. And Polonius. And Laertes. And Rosencrantz. And Guildenstern.
Well, with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern we never see the bodies so they might be living happily ever after in England, but “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are PROBABLY Dead” is a terrible name for a play.
Fun facts: 1) We don’t actually know what Shakespeare’s birthday was. He was born VERY NEAR April 23 1564 (he was christened on the 26th, I believe), but since he died on April 23 1616 the idea that he died on his birthday is too perfect to pass up. 2) Richard Thompson’s wife works at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. Well, she’s now his widow, but that fact is no fun at all.
Sisyphos over 6 years ago
Shakespeare has never been so happily molested!
Get thee to a nunnery, Sisyphos!