Ambitions 'mongst the stars

I’ve been thinking that maybe it’s about time that someone had a go at writing a modern Shakespeare play. It could be a brand new story, set in the present day, but using the language and poetic structure of Elizabethan times. How better to honour the recent anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth than by focusing my intellect on a pastiche of his work???

And who better to have a crack at it than yours truly?

Try this on for size:

With thought and reason untempered, I strive forth on venture new.

Shackles be broken; mind cast your boundaries askance,

And let not the weighty restrictions of my limiting view

Delay this merry, literary dance.

Okay – it’s just taken me an hour to come up with those four lines, and now my head is spinning and I have creative exhaustion. Maybe someone else would like to take on the challenge, for this is the point I realise I’ve taken on more than I can possibly chew and bail out….

(At least it kept me occupied for a while and stopped me from looking out of the window and then moaning about the rain.)

RC 28-4-18