Having dinner and drinks with Will Shakespeare. Ask us anything.

[Aristus]

How's everybody doing tonight?

[sarge43]

1. What's on the menu? nt

[Aristus]

3. Chicken saganaki and an India Pale Ale.

Will is suspicious of Greek food, but he loves the local microbrews!

"Zounds, mate! This is a heavenly drop!"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Ah, my dear Aristus, you are so lucky!

What I wouldn't give to have dinner and drinks with the Bard...

I am doing well, thank you, what with all the good news I've had recently.

[Aristus]

5. "Pegeen, lass! Oceans of love, Lady!"

Um... I think Will is happy to see you, CalPeg...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. I suspect you may be right, my dear Aristus...

I am likewise happy to see him too...

And of course, you...

[Aristus]

9. " A toast, lads! A toast, I say, to the lovely lady

from the mythy, legendary Spanish isle of California!"

[lindysalsagal]

4. Are the ghostwriter rumors true? n/t.

[Aristus]

6. Uh-oh. now you did it!

"GOD'S BLOODY WOUNDS!!!"

Will just threw his tankard across the tavern.

"Are people still on about that?!?!?!? I penned me own plays, for the love of sweet bleeding Jesus! Why does anyone think that poncy posh git Bacon wrote my plays? Or that tiresome sod, Jonson?"

This is kind of a sensitive subject. Will wrote his own plays. In a time when collaboration was the rule for playwrights, Will flew solo, with a few exceptions, which are well-documented.

Please don't bring that up again...

[zbdent]

21. really, who's writing this reply?

[Aristus]

23. I am.

But I know Will as well as any theater enthusiast.

He speaks to me...

[ohiosmith]

8. To bee,.or not to bee?

[Aristus]

10. "Oh by Heaven, and Good Queen Bess's garters!

That infernal soliloquy! Surely, I have written better things?"

[jakeXT]

41. .

[Scuba]

11. "Consistency, thou art a (___fill in the blank___)."

[Aristus]

13. "Jewel!

Heavens, lad! Something more challenging next time!"

[struggle4progress]

12. Wherefore, Nature, didst thou lions frame?

[Sekhmets Daughter]

14. Was the hope drunk,

Wherein you dressed yourself?

Aristus, good evening!

[Aristus]

15. Good evening, Sekhmet's Daughter!

Will says: "By the rood, mate! Do all of your friends talk like that? "

[Sekhmets Daughter]

16. Tell Will, just a few of them!

[Aristus]

19. Will just stood to offer you a courtly bow.

I think he likes you...

[Sekhmets Daughter]

20. Charming Will!

I like a courtly gentleman!

[Aristus]

22. "Sekhmet's Lovely Daughter, shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely, and more temperate..."

Will! No, no, NO!

SR, he originally wrote that to a GUY! People forget that.

He's had a few...

[Sekhmets Daughter]

24. He would woo me with words meant for a man.... poor Will

Tell him to try this the next time!

“She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won”

[Aristus]

28. "Was ever woman in this humour wooed?

Was ever woman in this humour WON?!"

SR, just enjoy it. Don't check the source. He doesn't mean anything by it...

[Sekhmets Daughter]

29. As you wish!

[one_voice]

17. Grape or strawberry jelly?

Hi Aristus!

Silly question, I know. I worked hard outside today, so I'm kinda tired tonight.

We had a new liner installed in our pool Monday and I had to bag up the old one (cut into small pieces) for the garbage tomorrow. I'm pretty sure it weighed about 800lbs.

How was your day?

[Aristus]

18. "Jelly? Hmmm... Jellyjellyjellyjelly...

Oh, JAM! Lor' bless me, Robin, lad. The lovely lady means jam!

Oh strawberry, without question, love. Who uses grapes for any but wine, I would like to know?"

[one_voice]

25. Well there are other uses for grapes...

but that's another thread.

[Aristus]

27. Invite me over to look at it when you post it...

[Newest Reality]

26. What light through yonder window breaks? - NT

[Lady Freedom Returns]

30. Ask us anything? OK...

"To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life."

Full speech at http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/not-that-question

[Aristus]

31. Uh-oh, LFR. Will is turning a little red in the face.

(He's answered this a million times...)

"It is about suicide, love! Snuffing it! Ending it all! Stepping out! How bloody difficult is that to comprehend?

All right then, Lady. I apologize. And 't'isn't like I erred not in writing it. Think about it: If death is an 'Undiscovered Country, from which no man returns', why the bloody hell did I have Hamlet's father return from it? If I had it to do over again..."

He's muttering now. Best just to let him have another drink...

[Lady Freedom Returns]

34. Tell Will that I'm sorry for my ignorance.

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." (Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene 7)


And it is to Will that I come to receive my wings!

[Aristus]

35. "Oh, come now to my arms, Lady!

Give us a buss on the lips! A drink, by God! A drink for the Lady!"

"We shall be merry, shall we not?"

Um...I think you're forgiven, LFR.

And if he buys you a drink, it means you have your wings...

[Lady Freedom Returns]

36. He has?

"Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel?" (The Merry Wives of Windsor, 3.3.35-6)

[sarge43]

47. Ah but dearest Will, wasn't that Prince Hamlet's true worry?

Was the "ghost" really Daddy or was it a demon sent by the Evil One to tempt him to murder most foul?

By the way Aristus, has Will ever tried coffee? I'm sure he'd love it.

[Aristus]

48. On both points, I'll have to ask him.

He's probably gallivanting around Southwark right now. Ah, the dissolute life of the actor/playwright...

[sarge43]

49. He's probably found a good hearted stumpet who'll let him crash in the back room.

She likes actors

[First Speaker]

32. OK--three questions--

One--just what the hell does, "put out the light, then put out the light" mean?
Two--Why the hell did you kill off Falstaff, to puff up that pompous little prig Henry the Fifth?
Three--Look, we all know you wrote the damned plays, OK? But did you ever collaborate with Oxford, and was that the reason for all the rumors in the first place?

Have a great dinner.

[Aristus]

33. First, Will would like to say:

"Welcome lad, to the Underground lair of the people who wouldst govern themselves!

One: Othello bids Desdemona put out her candle, so that he may then take her life in shadow. Quite sad, that, really.

Two: Sweet Jack Falstaff did love Hal more than did the King. It's very difficult to portray someone dying of a broken heart after being rejected by his sweet boy, if he does not soon after die.

Three: *sigh* Never once, for the love of sweet Jesus. Oxford died in Anno Domini Sixteen-Hundred Four. I wrote me best plays after that."

Welcome to DU, First Speaker. I hope you were able to understand Will's thick Warwickshire patois.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

37. Welcome to DU!

Always glad to meet another fan of Shakespeare !

[sheshe2]

38. Ah, Aristus, you make me laugh.

Thank you for that!

[Aristus]

39. "Our revels now are ended..."

Which is Will's way of saying:

[Lady Freedom Returns]

42. "Parting is such a sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow."

( from Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2)

[Kali]

40. I have one for you,

is there any affect on blood pressure readings, say for a 1000 foot drop in elevation?

[Aristus]

45. I haven't really experienced any in the course of clinical work.

Most of the altitude-related conditions we studied in school were centered around things like High Altitude Pulmonary Effusion, etc.

[In_The_Wind]

43. ooops! I was napping, peacefully.

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[Aristus]

46. Sorry we missed you, I_T_W.

Hope you had a restful sleep...

[whistler162]

44. With Bacon?