tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622544917745692912.post8979317324211409631..comments2021-07-02T18:40:14.358+01:00Comments on Richard Hardie's Blog: It's Will Shakespeare's birthday interview!Richard Hardiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12053966010128373952noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622544917745692912.post-6861248676563164562014-04-18T23:39:41.241+01:002014-04-18T23:39:41.241+01:00Hi Val,
Many thanks for that and please forward to...Hi Val,<br />Many thanks for that and please forward to your daughter!<br />On Friday next week Christopher Marlowe has asked me to post an open letter putting his side of the Elizabethan situation. He and Will were not great mates!Richard Hardiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12053966010128373952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622544917745692912.post-20969298936501742342014-04-18T22:47:01.105+01:002014-04-18T22:47:01.105+01:00This is excellent, Richard! I loved it! My daughte...This is excellent, Richard! I loved it! My daughter teaches English Literature at a school here in NL and I told her ages ago she should teach them that our Will was the first rapper (not Donne :)), so you've really tickled me with this street wise, Will Shakespeare. Glad to know he's up to some new tricks now!Vallypeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08309284606572565277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622544917745692912.post-56931631947056738612014-04-18T19:37:32.817+01:002014-04-18T19:37:32.817+01:00Yo, Sue,
So what you is sayin' is dat I should...Yo, Sue,<br />So what you is sayin' is dat I should make me agent to get his digit out and claim a load of royalties from all these copies, 'cos dis Bard don't remember given de contract ok.<br />Thanks for de heads up, Sue!<br />Hey, and I wrote King Lear as a comedy. Ain't dis guy's fault if de punters don't understand me sense of de humour!<br />Keep cool, Babe.<br />Will<br />Richard Hardiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12053966010128373952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622544917745692912.post-5928266922110496772014-04-18T19:22:40.139+01:002014-04-18T19:22:40.139+01:00I say, Will, this sounds really cool. Do you know...I say, Will, this sounds really cool. Do you know that some of your plays have inspired spin-offs? A guy called Nahum Tate had a go at King Lear back in the 1680s, giving it a happy ending. And more recently there have been musicals: Kiss Me Kate (based on The Taming of the Shrew), Return to the Forbidden Planet (The Tempest), The Boys from Syracuse (The Comedy of Errors), and of course West Side Story (Romeo & Juliet). I even had a go at R&J myself, though my version isn't a musical - it's a novel. Give it a go - you might even like it...Broad Thoughts From A Homehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08798249743031672360noreply@blogger.com