With Apologies to William Shakspeare:
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances..............
If indeed this is a stage and we are just actors, could it be I have forgotten my lines?
Imagine if Shakespeare were alive today............... not only would he be nearly 450 years old (if he ever actually existed at all) but would he actually be so revered? Endless paparazzi photos of the bard entering rehab for sex addiction to men and women, probably a reality tv show to find the next great playwright, allegations of plagirism, multimillion pound law suits and ultimately death in a lonely room somewhere, a spent, dried up entertainer who couldn't handle the adoration.
I liked him in O level English mainly because he gave our school an excuse to drive us to Stratford Upon Avon, drink beer at The Black Swan (AKA The Dirty Duck) down by the river (it was possible to kick a beer glass from the front of the pub into the river (or so I am led to believe)) watch a play and then have fun and frolics on the coach ride home. Happy Days! Now I am probably of the opinion that the tragedies are a little bit hackneyed, the comedies are not terribly funny and the histories are probably more than a tad overstated (Henry V - one of my favourites especially the Kenneth "Wallendar" Branagh filmed version - where at Agincourt the English overwhelmed the garlic munching Frenchie sorts, killing 17 million of them for the loss of 2 archers hit by flying shrapnell and a horse named Eric overcome by the smell of cheese). Having researched extensively about Agincourt over the years I can find no reference to Eric.................
It is a bad writer who has more words within (brackets/parentheses) than outside them. I am clearly guilty of being a very bad writer!
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