Historical Dramatist Gifts

'Look Chaucer, there goes that rotten plagiarist Shakespeare again!'

Southwark Fair.

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Objection, Your Honor! Alleged killer whale."

Canned laughter for sale in Theatrical Supplies shop.

Jack-a-box in the theatre.

Disraeli Stands for 'British Interests' Against Russian Expansionism

Comedy and tragedy masks

A man taking a bow

'The classic masks of Comedy and Tragedy, or as they're now known, emoticons.'

Henrik Ibsen,

"Leon, honey, you break all the rules of dramaturgy."

We Will Beat Any Genuine Quote...

"I'd like you to be the co-star in the melodrama that is life."

Tristan Und Isolde

"In closing, I would like to remind the jury that he says he didn't do it."

Mortally Wounded at the Battle of Quebec, General James Wolfe Forgets His Last Words

"The jury didn't buy my defense that CEOs just want to have fun."

'Shakespeare, what do you say we write a comedy?'

Blue Dress

'Shakespeare's Hamlet word for word - and I who always thought it was a crazy joke.'

Samuel Beckett

John Masefield.

"Impartiality becomes you."

'In this next precedent, an attorney lost his frivolous lawsuit complaint and his opponent then filed a frivolous 'frivolous lawsuit' lawsuit.'

"Twenty five years! But your honor,

"Once again, I simply don't recall."

The Modern Godot

James Barrie.

Eugene Ionesco

'Just tell him two quarts of milk and a pint of cream, Will- it doesn't have to be a sonnet.'

A Lawyer's Closing Arguments Wins the Support of the Jury

'You are in court today, so I've got to take you into make up.'

Oscar Wilde

Henrik Ibsen