Shakespeare:Good gentles all, lend me your patient ear,for here we set before you an ancient wound,that bled when kings were but men in armourand women wept upon the walls of stone.Behold, this tale is not new—for Homer sang it,and poets since have draped it in their tongues.Yet still it burns, as embers hidden in old ash,that flare when breath of theatre … [Read more...] about The Siege of Troy: Shakespeare’s Imagined Play
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The Philosopher King: Shakespeare’s Imagined Play
PrologueEnter Chorus, robed, scroll in hand.ChorusHere Rome is shown, not in her marble pride,but weary, fracturing, winter-bound.A crown of laurel on a scholar’s brow—too heavy for one head, too light to save a world.See Marcus, emperor in name, philosopher in truth;Cassius, soldier with cunning as his creed;Faustina, wife who would be love’s bold trumpet;and a … [Read more...] about The Philosopher King: Shakespeare’s Imagined Play