Prospective Playwright Gifts

"More sonnets and tragedies? You know the big money is in children's books, right Shakespeare?"

Shepherd and eurydice

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."

Herman Mankiewicz

"Aristophanes explains comedy"

"I'll do the movie but I want to be highly compensated and highly acclaimed."

Reading my Critics

If time travel was invented in 1600 in England. I'm a fan of the bard. Let's see if he wants to take a journey through time. Globe Theater. Sounds fun! Let's go to 2020. It's a nice round number. Zazzz! Poof! That's weird. How did they know he was coming? And why does he need to leave this place? Apparently you can't be here, William. The sign says "No Shakespeare in the park this summer."

Honoré de Balzac

'Hamlet'

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

German Expressionist Breakfast

Shakespeare was bisexual

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

Theatre Masks and Butts

The ghosts of Christmas yet to come.

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

"I try to write a little bit every day."

"Same story every morning - 'Can you come and fix our windmill?'..."

'How's everyone doing tonight - that is the question.'

Men: Hating chick flicks since 1623.

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

Do you have to write the 5 paragraph essays to be a rich investment banker? Or rock star? Or famous actress? No. No. And no. Then why learn to write one? So when those jobs don't work out

"Just when you're about to lose faith in humanity, you see Shakespeare in the Park."

'I asked Will if he wrote it. He said he wasn't sure.'

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

'It's some more story ideas from Francis Bacon.'

When Shakespeare gets up early, on the wrong side of the bed of a stranger, and in a clown suit... Later that same day, he will commence work on 'The Comedy of Errors.'"

Comedy and tragedy masks

Overshadowed by the Tony's: Broadway's Lesser Known Awards

Shakespeare places his works in 'To Be' or 'Not To Be'.