Shakespeare:Enter Shakespeare himself, quill in hand, addressing the audience directly. A hush falls across the hall.ShakespeareGood gentles all, whose ears and hearts are kind,I pray you lend your patience to a taleOf crown and heart, of passion’s reckless fire,That burneth brighter than the frost of law.Here stands a queen—a woman first, then crown’d—Who loved … [Read more...] about The Queen of Scots: Shakespeare’s Imagined Play
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Shakespeare’s Lost Works: Imagined Plays of History & Legend
IntroductionGood friends of time to come, lend me your ears. Oft have I dreamt that a man may not be bounded by his thirty-nine plays, nor by the parchment that bore his hand. There are more worlds than those I writ, more empires to rise, more queens to fall, more stars to blaze.In these ten new imaginings you shall find Constantinople’s walls crumbling, … [Read more...] about Shakespeare’s Lost Works: Imagined Plays of History & Legend