Saturday, April 2, 2016

160402 A joke : Lost Shakespeare #1

Shakespeare was fortunate enough to enjoy a great deal of popularity in his day, so much so that many of his plays ran so long that the plays intended to succeed them were often shelved because he felt they "missed their window of opportunity" or contained topical references too easily dated.
Here, then, are the titles of the Great Lost Shakespeare Plays.

#1) "Two Gentlemen, A Shrew and A Piazza Place"

Friday, April 1, 2016

160401 No joke

Well, it's been a while but I read a news report that the Chinese government's official news agency released an announcement to the effect that April Fool's day is a distinctly Western tradition at odds with Chinese culture and should be shunned by loyal Chinese citizens. It's reception has generally been that people are assuming that the announcement itself is an April Fool's joke. Could be, although the Chinese government are hardly known for their sense of humor. Still, this means one of two things must be possible: either the report was real and humor is being seriously threatened for a big chunk of the world's population; or the report was a joke and the Chinese government has therefore told more jokes than this blog for the calendar year. In either case, I can not allow this to stand. I've got to return to some semblance of productivity and I've got to do it in the form of a grand gesture. Or a hand gesture. No, no, a grand gesture would be better. What I need to do is unearth the great lost plays of William Shakespeare. I'll release their titles, one every day, for the rest of April. All that remains now is to make up 29 unseen Shakespeare plays.