Shakespeare was desperate, in the pocket of theater owners and would have crossed the #WGAStrike picket lines. Chris Marlow would have stayed #WGAStrong
♥ I was in a mood and then #Hashtaggames#FakeShakespeareFacts just snapped me right out of it! So darn funny!
♥ I mentioned a dilemma to my elderly mother - who I never ask for advice since she is generally not a practical thinker- and she solved it for me
♥ I found an old keyboard I resisted throwing away.. so life with this crazy laptop is waaay better til I can make time to buy and set up a new one
All those new drugs in U.S. TV ads are selected by having monkeys throw poop at very large-print copies of Shakespeare’s plays. The letters the poop lands on are formed into the name of a new drug. #fakeshakespearefacts #HashtagGames
Shakespeare original wrote in iambic octameter. He switched to pentameter when he discovered that he was judged by the number of lines he wrote, not the number of syllables.
In an early draft of "Hamlet", the play-within-the-play was "A Midsummer Night's Dream", making "Pyramus and Thisbe" the play-within-the-play-within-the-play. The transition from "Hamlet" to "Dream" was heralded by this line:
HAMLET: If I my uncle's guilt would truly know,
Then it is plain that deeper we must go.
"Cry me a river" (very well rendered by Justin Timberlake) is part of the poem 'To be or not to be' from the play Hamlet, Act III. Hamlet committed suicide Justin Timby drowning in theLake.
Shakespeare actually wrote a third Richard play, titled ‘Richard IV - Stratford Drift’, but the idea wasn’t popular with his publishers and the manuscript was eventually lost.
The first production of Julius Caesar was a musical, with Marc Antony's line "Cry havoc! And let slip the dogs of war" being followed with a musical number by a chorus of Baha Men singing "Who letteth the dogs out"
In the first draughts of his play, Shakespeare portrayed Hamlet not as a Prince of Denmark, but as a struggling artist deliberating his choice of which pencil to use.
Othellos were an Elizabethan delicacy, a sweetmeat snack that Shakespeare found irresistible. So much so that he named the play and titular character after them....because they were so "moreish"
It is long rumoured that Shakespeare enlisted the help of another playwright in completing his works. This is thought to be Sir Francis Bacon a polymath of science, philosophy and art who spent so much time in University education it led to the phrase "the six degrees of Francis Bacon"
Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway, created a local business that was the first-ever use of door-to-door sales for pomades, tinctures and ceruse make-up compounds, creating the original "Avon Ladies"
Time travelling Shakespeare was going to join the Jan 6 storming of the Capitol for research a new play, but found a lovely owl themed taverna instead, with the best wine he’d ever tasted, and without a trace of the plague or tb