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Fake Shakespeare Monologue

Fake Shakespeare Monologue

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keen on kean
#1Fake Shakespeare Monologue
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:06pm

This is going to be the vaguest question imaginable, but here goes. About twenty years ago a friend of mine worked at a Shakespeare festival for a summer, and appeared in several plays in repertory. He told me that there was a standard eight line monologue of Fake Shakspeare that the group purportedly used if an actor went up on his/her lines. It was iambic pentameter blank verse and meant absolutely nothing and as a result could be inserted in almost any location. I had a copy of this useful drivel but cannot find it. Does any know of such a device? I find it hard to believe that anyone would use it, but the idea was amusing anyway.

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Marlene
#2re: Fake Shakespeare Monologue
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:28pm

do share if you find it. :)

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lovelyspotlight
#2re: Fake Shakespeare Monologue
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:29pm

Yeah, that sounds pretty interesting.

vmlinnie
#3re: Fake Shakespeare Monologue
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:39pm

I find that most of the shakespearean monolgoues I know are completely random and irrelevant.


The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.


Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller

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Raviolisun
#4re: Fake Shakespeare Monologue
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:48pm

True dat, linnie.

I'm interested in this, too.


One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...


It was awesome.
- theaterkid1015


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