“you might’t just make up words!”
God help the drama student who learns Shakespeare from TNT.
Its the story of a young William Shakespeare.
Credit: Alex Bailey/TNT
For instance: ShakespearewasEnglish.
He did write plays.
He married Anne Hathaway.
He chilled at the Globe Theatre.
He had that stupid earring.
And then you quickly start to realize, Well, surely that has to be the point, right?
The actors who would become Lord Chamberlains Men are rowdy radicals who dabble in light choreography.
Richard Burbage, historys esteemed thespian, is a horny CW meathead.
Shakespeare drops mics in rap battles.
Falstaff does a stage dive.
For anyone with even a nugget of leftover Shakespeare knowledge from high school,Willcan be wicked summer fun.
Lines like Seems like your play is quite the thing!
are so heinous, theyre genius.
(Why is Shakespeare rewritingEdward IIIwhile quotingTaming of the ShrewandRomeo and Juliet?
Young Will stumbles through his thoughts until inspiration strikes and he can conceive what hes destined to write.
Theres the drunk man in the inn whom he overhears shouting about a nunnery.
fake his own death in the ultimate power play for the title of Elizabethan prince of melodrama.)
Marlowe helps Shakespeare hide his dispossessed Catholic family roots from power-hungry Protestants.
Burbage gets a girlfriend.
That sort of thing.
The rival dramaturg who cant remember Shakespeares name and calls himShakedick!
Buckle up, summer.
