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Charles Williams. A Myth of Shakespeare
A Myth of Shakespeare
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PART I
SCENE I. THE ROAD FROM STRATFORD TO LONDON [SHAKESPEARE sitting on a stile singing. BOTTOM and the other craftsmen from the Midsummer Night's Dream cross the stage, followed after a moment's interval by QUINCE, who pauses on seeing SHAKESPEARE]
[WALL holds up his fingers
[Exeunt PYRAMUS and THISBE
[Re-enter THISBE, MOONSHINE, and LION]
[The actors move off, QUINCE going with them. SHAKESPEARE lingers]
SCENE II. LONDON: OUTSIDE THE THEATRE [SHAKESPEARE lounging and watching the actors enter]
[They go into the theatre, where Tamburlaine is being rehearsed]
[TAMBURLAINE takes the Crown and puts it on]
[Exeunt. MARLOWE comes forward with SHAKESPEARE, HENSLOWE, and GREENE]
[SHAKESPEARE makes a gesture of helplessness]
SCENE III. MARLOWE'S LODGING AT DEPTFORD
[Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS]
[Enter FALSTAFF, GADSHILL, BARDOLPH, POINS, and PETO]
[They go out]
THE THEATRE [A rehearsal of The Taming of the Shrew has been taking place. SHAKESPEARE, HENSLOWE]
[A stage-hand looks in
[SOUTHAMPTON, RALEIGH, MARY FITTON, and others]
[As the actors come in, he speaks to HENSLOWE and then goes back to MARY FITTON]
[Enter KATHARINA and GRUMIO]
[Enter PETRUCHIO and HORTENSIO with meat]
[The courtiers rise amid a confusion of voices]
[SHAKESPEARE, returning alone, walks meditatively up and down two or three times; then he takes out several papers and looks at them. He sits down and reads aloud:]
[As he stops to make an insertion the curtain falls]
SCENE V. THE COURT [An ante-chamber opening on a hall where a performance of Henry V is just ending. The final chorus is heard within.]
[The noise of applause and many voices. Some of the players enter]
[ELIZABETH enters, with SHAKESPEARE, SOUTHAMPTON, RALEIGH, and the Court]
[The actors begin]
[Whispers CHARMIAN
[Enter DOLABELLA]
[Enter a Guardsman]
[Re-enter Guardsman, with Clown bringing in a basket]
[Setting down his basket
[Re-enter IRAS with a robe, crown, &c.]
[Enter the Guard, rushing in]
[After the presentation all look to the Queen to speak. She remains silent for a moment and then says deliberately:]
[One of the actors comes forward and, at a whisper from SHAKESPEARE, delivers the speech]
[The Queen rises]
[The Queen goes out with the Court. The actors follow]
[BURBAGE goes, MARY FITTON comes to the entrance, and beckons SHAKESPEARE with a movement of her head]
[He follows her out]
PART II
SCENE I. SHAKESPEARE'S LODGINGS [SHAKESPEARE at work on Troilus and Cressida. After a while he leaves off writing and correcting and settles down to read] [Enter PRIAM, HECTOR, TROILUS, PARIS, and HELENUS]
[A knock, FRANCIS BEAUMONT and DAVID NICHOLAS come in]
[SHAKESPEARE and NICHOLAS go out. BEAUMONT picks up the manuscript and sits down to read]
[Enter CRESSIDA]
[SHAKESPEARE returns, BEAUMONT rises to meet him]
SCENE II. A ROOM AT THE MERMAID [SHAKESPEARE, JONSON, BURBAGE, at one table. SIR TOBY BELCH and SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK at another.]
[Enter Clown]
[He gives them a paper. They gather round, examining and whispering]
[SHAKESPEARE gives them money and they go out]
[SHAKESPEARE goes out]
SCENE III. THE THEATRE [An early rehearsal of The Tempest is in progress. SHAKESPEARE, BURBAGE, HENEAGE, and the actors]
[A boy sings]
[The boy sings]
[The rehearsal of another scene begins]
[He draws, and is charmed from moving
[Repeating the lines]
[The actors return with their new parts]
[A masque. Enter IRIS]
[Enter CERES]
[Enter JUNO]
[JUNO and CERES whisper, and send IRIS on employment]
[Enter certain nymphs]
[Enter certain reapers, properly habited: they join with the nymphs in a graceful dance; towards the end whereof PROSPERO starts suddenly, and speaks*; after which, to a strange, hollow, and confused noise, they heavily vanish]
[Enter ARIEL]
[PROSPERO and ARIEL remain invisible. Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, all wet]
[A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers spirits, in shape of hounds, and hunt them about; PROSPERO and ARIEL setting them on]
[CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO are driven out
[They go out, SHAKESPEARE'S voice dying away in the distance]
SCENE IV. ON THE ROAD TO STRATFORD [AUTOLYCUS comes in on his way to the sheep-shearing. He begins to limp as SHAKESPEARE enters]
[He swings his staff, and as if by accident strikes AUTOLYCUS on the legs as the Clown enters]
[The feasters are seen]
[He sees FLORIZEL and PERDITA]
[They join the feasters
[Music. Here a dance of shepherds and shepherdesses]
EPILOGUE. THE GARDEN AT NEW PLACE [SHAKESPEARE and his son-in-law HALL, BEN JONSON]
[HALL goes. As SHAKESPEARE strolls up and down a voice from without sings]
PRINTED IN ENGLAND AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD. BY JOHN JOHNSON, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
