Reduced Shakespeare Company did this for Othello in the early '80s. (It does have some 80s cringe going on, so enter forewarned):https://youtu.be/0e0pOwXuo78?si=CQwdhkHR58TQ9h6Q
Tagged WS on a post would be like touching a dragon's horde: he might sleep through it, or he might awaken and roast you until nothing was left but a blackened husk
in elizabethan england, they did have insulting poetry battles in the streets and taverns and they called it "flyting". so absolutely he'd have like 36 rap albums out.
He really would have, a god fearing man who knows a hard day’s work using wit to destroy a gluttonous depraved fool would have him cheering just like us
I mean, people* like to think he had one with Marlowe, a contemporaneous playwright who was a brawler and accessory to murder (& who was then killed in a fight at age 29).**
*certain academics have strong, conspiratorial feelings about this
** Enjoy the rabbit hole this may send you down
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I’m Shakespeare
Have no fear
Point me in a direction
And then steer clear 😉 🎤
I’m the new bard
And I try to go hard
#resist #barsnotwars
Ain't twenty-v-one, it's one-v-twenty if I gotta smack ***** that write with you
The Bard would’ve been crip walking with Serena.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_fBEazFfGlZCBvz4IBaoykX67I7lI5rz/view?usp=drivesdk
That’s all I have to say
We could fix him
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
We'd be having epic plays by now satirizing the beef.
(he has not so much brain as ear wax)
*certain academics have strong, conspiratorial feelings about this
** Enjoy the rabbit hole this may send you down