Act ThreeWORDS, WORDS, WORDS!
QUINCE
Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall be written in eight and six.
BOTTOM
No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.
(A Midsummer Night's Dream)
How long a time lies in one little word!
(Richard II)
Now then: you have studied what little we know of Shakespeare's life and times and how theatre was done in Elizabethan England. You have gone over your monologue or scene with exercises and improvisations to find the “outrageous” in them. At this point you might wonder why it took so long to address more directly the one thing that sets William Shakespeare's plays far above dramatic literature in the history of the world: his poetry. The reason for this is very simple: ...
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