What if Shakespeare were a…..

He could have been so many things if theatre had not worked out for him!

What if Shakespeare……were a hipster drama student at a modern-day college in Canada?

Such is the premise of Blank Verse, a self-styled “Shakespeare Web Series” produced by Nik Nok Media. The show imagines how the bard would act, think, dress, and write if he came into his own as a playwright not on the boards of a 16th century London playhouse, but in the classrooms of Bankside University, a fictional present-day Canadian theatre school. Bard enthusiasts and history buffs alike will have a ball spotting the various historical figures that have been transplanted from Elizabethan England to a Canada-like present day: Christina “Chris” Marlowe is a best-selling novelist/Creative writing MA candidate, Elizabeth Tudor is the head of the Creative Writing Department at Bankside, Richard Burbage (one of the actor’s in Shakespeare’s company, The King’s Men) is a hard-partying undergrad, Benjamina “Ben” Johnson, is an overachieving highschooler enrolled in a Bankside class for extra credit. Will himself is an angsty twenty-something with a blog and a dream.

Now tell me that isn’t the darlingest thing to hit the internet since the last time your kitten did something cute and you caught it on your iphone just in time.

The first season aired in weekly installments from August to December 2013, and the team is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to launch their second season. If you are looking for a cute, quirky, and endearingly nerdy webseries to get into, look no further than Blank Verse!

Link- What if Shakespeare… WROTE STAR WARS?

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The Shakespeare In Action Blog is Moving!

The time has come, my friends, to move the Shakespeare In Action Blog a bit closer to home.

Sad, I know, but it’s not like we’re leaving the internet for good! You can visit us at our new home:

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We’ve got loads of new ideas for blog posts coming, including news and information about our upcoming shows, educational programming, and fundraisers! Bookmark our new page and visit us sometime! We are keeping this page up as well, so you will be able to access all of our blog posts of the past!

Away, away! Once more, sweet lords farewell.

What if Shakespeare was… on American Idol!

What if Shakespeare was on American Idol singing a heartbreaking love song for a place in the final?

If music be the food of love, play on, (play on, play on)

Give me excess of it (excess of it) [1]

For stony limits cannot hold love out, (cannot hold)

And what love can do, that dares love attempt [2]

The course of true love never did run smooth [3]

O my love! Here’s to my love (Oooooh my love! Here’s to my love) [4]

If thou canst / love me… I say to thee / that I shall die [5]

Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all (yea take them all, all, all) [6]

But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade [7]

A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind, / A lover’s ear will hear the lowest sound [8]

I love thee, I will not say pity me…

But I say, love me (But I say, looooovvve me) [9]

Canst thou love me? (Canst thou love me?) [10]

Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty [11]

I love thee more and more: think more and more (think more and more) [12]

I have not art to reckon my groans;

But that I love thee best, O most best believe [13]

If thou dost love me [14] O joyful day! (joyful, joyful day) [15]

To say thou dost not [16] O, break my heart! (break, break, break)

Poor bankrupt, break at once! [17]

But I say, love me… [18]

In this city will I stay / And live alone and [19]

Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth [20]

Ay me!… and twenty times! Woe, woe / And twenty echoes twenty times cry so [21]

But I say, love me… [22]

For now my love… I know thou canst [23]

By Linda Nicoll

References:

1 Twelfth Night I. i. 2-3

2 Romeo & Juliet II. ii. 916-17

3 A Midsummer Night’s Dream I. i. 140

4 Romeo & Juliet V. iii. 3037 & 65

5 Henry V V. ii. 3132-35

6 Sonnet 40, 1

7 Sonnet 51, 12

8 Love’s Labour’s Lost IV, iii. 1679-80

9 Merry Wives of Windsor II. i. 580-81

10 Henry V V. ii. 3176

11 Twelfth Night I. v. 464

12 Cymbeline V. v. 3498

13 Hamlet II. ii. 1216-18

14 Romeo & Juliet I. v. 943

15 Henry IV P II V. iii. 3539

16 All’s Well That Ends Well I. iii. 497

17 Romeo & Juliet III. ii. 1779

18 Merry Wives of Windsor II. i. 581

19 Henry VI P II IV, iv. 2570-71

20 Richard II III. ii. 1557

21 Venus and Adonis 855-6

22 Merry Wives of Windsor II. i. 581

23 Comedy of Errors II. ii 514 & 28

What if Shakespeare… won an Oscar?

What if Shakespeare won an Academy Award for Best Actor and gave an acceptance speech…

Ay me! [1] every part about me quivers [2]. This poor heart of mine [3] trembling even at [4] the sound of [5] mine own name [6]. I have heard, but not believed [7], my thoughts are humbled all [8] as thou dost [9] surprise me to the brink of tears [10]. I humbly thank you [11]. Thanks my countrymen, my loving friends [12]. I thank my stars I am happy [13]. A proclaim’d prize [14] it is an honour that I have dreamed [15] of these many years [16]. For the nomination [17] hath so humbled me [18] and being a winner [19] by how much unexpected [20] carries beyond belief [21].

My son, quoth he [22], “if you have victory [23] speak the speech, I pray you, trippingly on the tongue” [24]. Methinks that [25] I am not able to [26]. I hath often dreamed of [27] certain speeches utter’d [28] in the looking-glass [29], but now I think [30] that strength of speech is utterly denied me [31] O, pardon me, my liege! But for my tears, / the moist impediments unto my speech [32].

But I prattle / something too wildly [33]. I will be brief [34]. To these great fellows [35] these competitors [36], let me commend thee first [37], the harder match’d, the greater victory [38]. The learned writer [39] not I, is the doer of this, and he is to be thanked [40] He hath made his masterpiece [41].

The sounds of music / creep in our ears [42]. Where should this music be? [43]. They desire to [44] cut me off [45]. They shouted thrice [46] “bid him make haste” [47]. Tarry a little, there is something else [48]. This player here [49] is truly honoured [50]. A thousand thanks [51] for mine [52] statue in pure gold [53].

Words by Shakespeare – rearranged by Linda Nicoll

References:

1 Romeo & Juliet: I. i. 185

2 Romeo & Juliet: II. iv. 1316-17

3 Venus and Adonis: 523

4 Henry IV P I: I. iii. 473

5 Coriolanus: I. vi. 643

6 Two Gentlemen of Verona: I. ii. 279

7 The Winter’s Tale: III. iii. 1507

8 Titus Andronicus: I. i. 56

9 Julius Caesar: I. ii. 296

10 Timon of Athens: V. i. 2438

11 All’s Well That Ends Well: III. V. 1720

12 Richard II: I. iv. 647

13 Twelfth Night: II. V. 1192

14 King Lear: IV. Vi. 2844]

15 Romeo and Juliet: I. iii. 451

16 Henry VI P I: II. iii. 870

17 Love’s Labour’s Lost: IV. ii. 1283

18 Two Gentlemen of Verona: II. iv. 794

19 The Taming of the Shrew: V. ii. 2695

20 King John: II. i. 372

21 Anthony and Cleopatra: III. vii. 2031

22 The Taming of the Shrew: I. i. 508

23 King Lear: V. i. 3073

24 Hamlet: III. ii. 18

25 Two Gentlemen of Verona: IV. Iv. 1917

26 Timon of Athens: III. ii. 1060

27 Much Ado About Nothing: II. i. 720

28 Henry VIII: II. iv. 1542

29 The Winter’s Tale: I. ii. 192

30 Cymbeline: III. Vi. 2158

31 Henry IV P II: IV. v 3113

32 Henry V: IV. v. 3034-35

33 The Tempest: III. i. 1345-46

34 Hamlet: II. ii. 1186

35 Anthony and Cleopatra: II. vii. 1540

36 Anthony and Cleopatra: II. vii. 1459

37 Coriolanus: IV. v. 2912

38 Henry VI P III: V. i. 2670

39 Much Ado About Nothing: III. v. 1639

40 Twelfth Night: III. iv. 1627-28

41 Macbeth: II. iii. 838

42 The Merchant of Venice: V. i. 2509-10

43 The Tempest: I. ii 550

44 Love’s Labour’s Lost: V. ii. 2029

45 Henry IV P I: IV. iii. 2544

46 Julius Caesar: I. ii. 318

47 Two Gentlemen of Verona: III. i. 1332

48 The Merchant of Venice: IV. i. 2251-52

49 Hamlet: III. ii. 1624

50 Rape of Lucrece: 461

51 Henry V: IV. iv. 2429

52 All’s Well That Ends Well: V. iii. 2766

53 Romeo and Juliet: V. iii. 3275

What if Shakespeare…were STUCK IN TRAFFIC?

The two hours traffic of our stage: (1)

Like captives bound to a triumphant car – / What! shall we curse the planets of mishap / That plotted thus..? (2) Traffic confound thee, if the gods will not! (3)

O illegitimate construction! I scorn that with my heels (4) – that same wicked bastard…that was begot of thought, conceiv’d of spleen, and born of madness! (5) Under your hard construction must I sit (6) I’ the midst o’ the body, idle and unactive (7).

I am arrested in the street (8) creeping like snail / Unwillingly (9). Beyond the bounds of patience (10) Men all in fire walk up and down (11), stand in narrow lanes / And beat [their] watch (12). Sorrow snares relenting passengers (13).

The horn, the horn, the lusty horn / Is not a thing to laugh to scorn (14).

1) Romeo & Juliet, Prologue

2) Henry VI, I; 1.1

3) Timon of Athens, 1.1

4) Much Ado About Nothing, 3.4

5) As You Like It, 4.1

6) Twelfth Night, 3.1

7) Coriolanus, 1.1

8) Comedy of Errors, 4.1

9) As You Like It, 2.7

10) Henry IV, I; 1.3

11) Julius Caesar, 1.3

12) Richard II, 5.3

13) Henry VI, II, 3.1

14) As You Like It, 4.2

Shakespeare re-arranged by L.I.

What if Shakespeare…HELD A PARTY?

Welcome, gentlemen! Ladies! (1) Cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast (2). With all my heart (3) and for your delight (4), [I shall play] the humble host (5).

Come, the table’s full, be large in mirth (6). Here is a place reserved (7), for anon we’ll drink a measure the table round (7). Give me some wine. Fill full! (8) I drink to the general joy o’ th’ whole table (9). [Let us] feed on nourishing dishes (10): [Here’s] a couple of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton (11), and dates and quinces in the pastry (12). [Have some] rice (13), dates, and warden pies (14). [Or maybe] four pound of prunes (15)…stewed prunes (16). Nay, I jest! I jest! [As I am] a fellow of infinite jest (17). Let’s be red with mirth (18).

Sweet friends (19), ‘tis a night of revels! (20) How shall we beguile the lazy time if not with some delight? (21) What dances shall we have to wear away this long ago of three hours between our after-supper and bedtime? (22) Now let’s have a catch (23) of dancing shoes with nimble soles (24). Come, some music! Come, the trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes, tabours and cymbals (25), sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not (26). A hall, a hall, give room! – And foot it, girls. More light, you knaves! And turn the tables up, and quench the fire. The room is grown too hot! (27)

Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times (28), ’tis too late to go to bed now (29). For it is a way to make us better friends, more known (30). [I thank thee for thy] jest (31) and continual laughter (32).

Romeo and Juliet, I. v. 14
The Comedy of Errors, III. i. 27
Richard III, III. iv. 34
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, V. i. 109
Macbeth, III. iv. 4
Macbeth, III. iv. 48
Macbeth, III. iv. 49
Macbeth, III. iv. 92
Macbeth, III. iv. 93
Othello, III. iii. 78
Henry IV part 2, V. i. 23
Romeo and Juliet, IV. iv. 2
The Winter’s Tale, IV. iii. 39
The Winter’s Tale, IV. iii. 47
The Winter’s Tale, IV. iii. 49
Henry IV part 1, III. iii. 40
Hamlet, V. i. 161
The Winter’s Tale, IV. iii. 63
The Merchant of Venice, II. vi. 21
Othello, II. iii. 29
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, V. i. 40-41
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, V. i. 34-35
Twelfth Night, II. iii. 17
Romeo and Juliet, I. iv. 15
Coriolanus, V. iv. 3784
The Tempest, III. ii. 136
Romeo and Juliet, I. v. 32-33
Twelfth Night, II. iv. 7
Twelfth Night, II. iii. 166-167
The Winter’s Tale, IV. iii. 74-75
Henry IV part 2, V. i. 78
Henry IV part 2, V. i. 74

(Shakespeare re-arranged by Vineeta)

What if Shakespeare was a judge on Simon Cowell’s The X Factor?

Will Shakes: What, one good in ten? [1] I am thoroughly weary [2] (Calls to the presenters – The Dromios) Who is next? [3]

Dromio of Syracuse: A pair of star-cross’d lovers [4]

Dromio of Ephesus: Juliet, and her Romeo [5]

(Romeo and Juliet enter and sing a duet of ‘My Heart Will Go On’ from the film ‘Titanic’)

Dromio of Syracuse: Most sweet voices! [6]

Will Shakes: Come, come, I’ll hear no more of this [7] A plague upon this howling! They are louder than / the weather [8]

Romeo: No more, you petty spirits of region low, / Offend our hearing; hush! How dare you! [9]

Will Shakes: Alas, sir, / In what have I offended you? [10] O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters [11] Her song was tedious and outwore the night [12] As for thee, boy, go get thee from my sight [13] Thy voice is dreadful thunder [14] (To The Dromios) How dost thou afflict me [15] I am hot with hast in seeking [16] a rare talent [17] and thou shalt find it [18] Dost thou hear? [19]

Dromio of Syracuse: I prithee, call in Falstaff [20] He shall be needful of your entertainment [21] (Enter Falstaff boasting of his talent)

Will Shakes: I’ll speak troth [22] Is not your voice your wind short, your thin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? [23]

Falstaff: Thou shalt find [24] I am the greatest [25]

(He starts to sings ‘The Great Pretender’)

Will Shakes: Break off they song, and haste thee quick away [26] ‘Tis too horrible! [27]

Falstaff: Thou haught insulting man [28]

Will Shakes: Away! I do condemn mine ears that have / So long attended thee [29]

Falstaff: But thou anon shalt hear of me again [30] when thou shalt kneel [31]

Will Shakes: (To The Dromios) Away with him… Go, take him away, I say [32]

(The Dromios drag Falstaff behind the curtain. Loud shrieks are heard offstage)

Will Shakes: What shrill-voiced supplicant makes this eager cry? [33]

Dromio of Ephesus: ‘Tis ‘The Macbeths and The Three Cronies’ (Enter Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and The Three Witches singing ‘Highway to Hell’)

Will Shakes: I never heard a passion so confused [34] with strange and several voices / Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling, chains, / And more diversity of sounds, all horrible [35] You corrupt the song [36]

Macbeth: (To Will Shakes) My voice is ragged; I know I cannot please you [37]

Lady Macbeth: (To Macbeth) Screw your courage to the sticking-place [38]

Macbeth: (To Lady Macbeth) But, sure, I fear, we shall ne’er win him to it [39]

Lady Macbeth: Force perforce, I’ll make him yield the crown [40]

The Witches: All hail Macbeth! [41]

Lady Macbeth: Stop their mouths, let them not speak [42]

Macbeth: They do but jest [43]

Lady Macbeth: Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word: / Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee [44] (Storms off the stage and Macbeth and the Witches run after her)

Will Shakes: ‘Tis a pity [45] I did like the lady well [46] Who is next? [47]

Dromio of Syracuse: A young gentleman [48]

Will Shakes: Is he disposed to mirth? I hope he is [49]

(Hamlet enters and stands motionless on the stage. He is deep in contemplation trying to decide whether he should sing or not)

Will Shakes: Let’s see your song. How now, minion! [50]

(Hamlet does not sing)

Will Shakes: If thou hast any sound, or use of voice, / speak to me. [51]

(Hamlet looks as if he is about to sing, then suddenly stops, still torn)

So tedious is this day [52] Take him away [53]

(As The Dromios escort a conflicted Hamlet from the stage, The Rude Mechanicals loudly rush on from the wings)

Are you all resolved to give your voices? [54]

Bottom the Weaver: Thou shalt hear [55] Nick Bottom the Weaver [56] ten times louder [57]

(They sing ‘Moonshine’ by Bruno Mars)

Will Shakes: By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to hear such a foolish song. God buy you: and God mend your voices [58]

Snug the Joiner: Alas, kind Lord [59]

Will Shakes: Nay, do not think I flatter [60]

Bottom the Weaver: We are glad [Mr Shakes] is so pleasant with us [61]

(The Mechanicals start to leave the stage, all very pleased with themselves)

Will Shakes: (Shouting after them) It is not so; thou hast misspoke, misheard [62] It was a disaster [63] Ay, I have lost my hopes [64]

Dromio of Ephesus: The event / Is yet to name the winner [65] (The Dromios proceed to shout out names of earlier contestants to Will Shakes)

Will Shakes:

[Henry V] By my troth, a good song [66] which I enjoy’d [67] But yet alas [68] too long-winded [69]

[Jacques] – So spiritless, / So dull, so dread in look, so woe-begone [70] too melancholy [71]

[Richard III] – Did ever raven sing so like a lark? [72] Yet nothing but songs of death [73]

[Goneril and Regan] – An excellent song [74] they did perform [75] but yet indeed [76] they are vipers [77]

[The Nurse] – My troth, a pleasant-spirited lady. [78] but yet she has [79] an ear –deafening voice [80]

Dromio of Syracuse: What say you [81] Prithee, who is’t that thou mean’st? [82]

Will Shakes: I now / Profess myself the winner [83] With promise of high pay and great rewards [84]

Words by Shakespeare – rearranged by Linda Nicoll

References:

1 All’s Well That Ends Well [I. iii. 398]

2 Cymbeline [III. iv. 2183]

3 Henry IV PII [III. ii. 2022]

4 Romeo and Juliet [Prologue 1, 6]

5 Romeo and Juliet, [V. iii. 3285]

6 Coriolanus [II. iii. 1545]

7 Troilus and Cressida [III. i. 1589]

8 The Tempest [I. i. 42-43]

9 Cymbeline [V. iv. 3243-44]

10 Henry VIII [II. iv. 1374-75]

11 Hamlet [III. ii. 1889-91]

12 Venus and Adonis [863]

13 Titus Andronicus [III. I 1424]

14 Love’s Labour Lost [IV. ii. 1251]

15 Richard III [V. iii. 3681]

16 King John [IV. iii. 2095]

17 Love’s Labour Lost [IV. ii. 1210]

18 King John [V. ii. 2464]

19 Hamlet [III. ii. 1941]

20 Henry IV P I [II. iv. 1100]

21 King Lear [II. iv. 1501]

22 Cymbeline [V. v. 3703]

23 Henry IV P II [I. ii. 505-07]

24 King Lear [I. iv. 837]

25 Romeo and Juliet [V. iii. 3198]

26 Measure for Measure [IV. i. 1801]

27 Measure for Measure [III. i. 1353]

28 Richard II [IV. i. 2243]

29 Cymbeline [I. vi. 770-71]

30 Troilus and Cressida [V. vi. 3535]

31 Pericles [V. i. 2434]

32 Henry VI P II [IV, vii. 2723-25]

33 Richard II [V. iii. 2654]

34 The Merchant of Venice [II. viii. 1083]

35 The Tempest [V. i. 2293-95]

36 All’s Well That Ends Well [I. iii. 398]

37 As You Like It [II. v. 832]

38 Macbeth [I. vii. 541]

39 Richard III [III. vii. 2286]

40 Henry VI P II [I. i. 270]

41 Macbeth [I. iii. 149]

42 Titus Andronicus [V. ii. 2484]

43 Hamlet [III. ii. 2128]

44 Romeo and Juliet [III. v. 2317-18]

45 The Winter’s Tale [II. i. 683]

46 All’s Well That Ends Well [IV. v. 2524]

47 Henry IV PII [III. ii. 2022]

48 Twelfth Night [I. v. 390]

49 Cymbeline [I. vi. 671]

50 Two Gentlemen of Verona [I. ii. 244]

51 Hamlet [I. i. 129]

52 Romeo and Juliet [III. ii. 1745]

53 All’s Well That Ends Well V. iii. 2811

54 Coriolanus [II. iii. 1457]

55 As You Like It [I. i. 24]

56 A Midsummer’s Night Dream [I. ii. 280]

57 Measure for Measure [II. iv. 1106]

58 As You Like It [V. iii. 2370]

59 Timon of Athens [IV. ii. 1655]

60 Hamlet [III. ii. 1935]

61 Henry V [I. ii. 409]

62 King John [III. i. 919]

63 All’s Well That Ends Well [III. vi. 1777]

64 Macbeth [IV. iii. 1871]

65 Cymbeline [III. v. 1963-64]

66 Much Ado About Nothing [II. iii. 895]

67 Richard III [I. iii. 546]

68 King Lear [I. i. 297]

69 Henry IV P I [III. iii. 2168]

70 Henry IV P II [I. I 127-28]

71 Pericles [II. iii. 878]

72 Titus Andronicus [III. i. 1289]

73 Richard III [IV. iv. 3337]

74 Othello [II. iii. 1208]

75 Henry VIII [I. i. 75]

76 As You Like It [I. ii. 388]

77 Troilus and Cressida [III. i. 1618]

78 Much Ado About Nothing [II. i. 716]

79 All’s Well That Ends Well [I. iv. 1206]

80 The Winter’s Tale [III. ii. 1192]

81 All’s Well That Ends Well [I. iii. 324]

82 As You Like It [I. ii. 212]

83 Cymbeline [II. iv. 1237-38]

84 Henry VI P III [II. i. 762]

What If Shakespeare…were a DENTIST?

Tooth Clip Art Welcome, young man (1). What! sigh for the toothache? Where is but a humour or a worm (2). Come, come, and sit you down (3). For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently (4).

Open your mouth (5). O horror, horror, horror (6)! Thou odouriferous stench! sound rottenness (7)! He lives upon mouldy stew’d prunes and dried cakes (8).

Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron (9). [Strange and several noises of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains, and more diversity of sounds, all horrible (10). Strange screams of death (11).] Be calm, be calm (12)!

The long day’s task is done (13); teeth as white as whale’s bone (14)! I will fetch you a tooth-picker now (15). Take leave until we meet again (16). Till then fair hope must hinder life’s decay (17).

1) As You Like It, V.iv, 256

2) Much Ado About Nothing, III.ii, 1223-4

3) Hamlet, III.iv, 2404)

4) Much Ado About Nothing, V.i, 2103-4

5) The Tempest, II.ii, 1171

6) Macbeth, II.iii, 835

7) King John, III.iv, 1410

8) Henry IV, Part II, II.iv, 1403

9) Romeo and Juliet, V.iii, 2959

10) The Tempest, V.i, 2296-98

11) Macbeth, II.iii, 825

12) Coriolanus, III.i, 1774

13) Antony and Cleopatra, IV.xiv, 3021

14) Love’s Labour’s Lost, V.ii, 2249-50

15) Much Ado About Nothing, II.i, 647

16) Henry VI, Part III, II.iii, 1070

17) Henry VI, Part III, IV.iv, 2258

Shakespeare re-arranged by Lisa

Image: http://www.clker.com/clipart-tooth.html

What if Shakespeare…had the world’s worst CAT?

I cannot choose: sometime he angers me /With telling me of the mouldwarp and the ant, /Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies, /And of a dragon and a finless fish, /A clip-wing’d griffin and a moulten raven, /A couching lion and a ramping cat. [1] Some, that are mad if they behold a cat; /And others, when the bagpipe sings i’ the nose, /Cannot contain their urine. [2] I could endure any thing before but a cat, and now he’s a cat to me. [3] civet is of a baser birth than tar. [4] You fur your gloves with reason. [5]

Purr! the cat is gray. [6] Like the poor cat i’ the adage. [7] Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries, /And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves. [8] If the cat will after kind [9], pray you, sir, use the carp as you may. [10]

The cat, with eyne of burning coal, /Now crouches fore the mouse’s hole; [11] Yet, foul night-waking cat, he doth but dally. [12] Come on your ways; open your mouth; here is that which will give language to you, cat: open your mouth. [13] The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. [14]

A pox on him, he’s a cat still. [15] Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose, /Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent! [16] Zounds … a cat, to scratch a man to death! […] Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm. [17]

Shakespeare re-arranged by Zhan Zhang.

References:

1) Henry IV, Part I [III. 1.1693-1698]

2) Merchant of Venice [IV. 1. 1980]

3) All’s Well That Ends Well [IV. 3. 2320]

4) As You Like It [III. 2. 1180]

5) Troilus and Cressida [II. 2. 1028]

6) King Lear [III. 6. 2049]

7) Macbeth [I. 7. 522]

8) Henry V [I. 2. 321]

9) As You Like It [III. 2. 1213]

10) All’s Well That Ends Well [V. 2. 2636]

11) Pericles [III. 0. 1123]

12) Rape of Lucrece 605

13) Tempest [II. 2. 1171]

14) Hamlet [V, 1.3638]

15) All’s Well That Ends Well [IV. 3. 2357]

16) Midsummer Night’s Dream [III. 2.1303]

17) Romeo and Juliet [III. 1. 1605-1609]