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    William Shakespeare Rewritten by You
    William Shakespeare Rewritten by You
    William Shakespeare Rewritten by You
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    William Shakespeare Rewritten by You

    By Joelle Herr

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    Create your own William Shakespeare classics with this laugh-out-loud Mad-Libs-style word game for adults.

    Shakespeare thought it should be “light” through the window and Juliet is the “sun.” But what did he know? A few blind word replacements and everyone is laughing over such ad-libs as, “What fart through yonder window breaks? It is the poop, and Juliet is the cow.”

    By answering a series of questions, you can rewrite the most famous scenes ever penned, tearing asunder immortal words in merry pursuit of amusement. All the world’s a game and all the bard’s dramas and sonnets mere playthings for such outcomes as, “Alas, poor Bob! I spanked him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite wang of most excellent flatulence.”

    A great way to share some laughs or have fun while discovering Shakespeare, this book’s page after page of silly literary games makes an ideal gift.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 21, 2014
    ISBN9781612433769
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      William Shakespeare Rewritten by You - Joelle Herr

      Introduction

      Whoever originally said you shouldn’t mess with a good thing was probably a massive party pooper. It’s time to sharpen your pencil—or, if you’re feeling bold, whip out your favorite pen—because it’s about to get messy around here. Literarily messy.

      On the following pages, you’ll find forty-seven iconic passages from Shakespeare’s plays, along with prompts that’ll have you plumbing the deepest depths of your genius for responses that will, when plopped into place, vastly improve upon the Bard’s musty (if masterful) works. Because, let’s face it, anything that’s pushing 400 years old could use a little freshening up.

      Tragedies

      I dig tales of madness and murder and mayhem as much as the next reader, but, sometimes, when I’m in the thick of the gloom and doom of a Shakespearean tragedy, I wish one of his contemporaries had taken him by his prominently ruffled Elizabethan collar and told him to lighten the hell up. In this section, you get to step into that role by adding a little levity to some seriously dysfunctional situations.

      One of history’s earliest codependent relationships

      ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

      ACT I, SCENE V

      1.If you do this verb for very long, you might get tired.

      2.What’s the opposite verb of #1—or the closest you can think of?

      3.What’s a verb that you do every day?

      4.Pick an animal, any animal.

      5.Pick an emotion, and put the adjective version here.

      6.How about an –ly adverb?

      7.Body part for right here.

      8.Pick something that’s long and skinny.

      9.What’s something that doesn’t taste very good?

      10.What’s your least-favorite color?

      11.Most women like their men to be this adjective.

      12.What’s something you snack on? (Make it singular.)

      13.Plural body part for right here.

      14.And another body part.

      15.What’s something you treasure?

      Or is he on his LEMUR?

      CLEOPATRA

      Where think’st thou he is now? Stands 1. __________________________ s he or sits 2. __________________________ s

      he?

      Or does he walk 3. _______________________? Or is he on his horse 4. __________________________?

      O happy 5. __________________________horse 4. __________________________, to bear the weight of Antony!

      Do bravely 6. __________________________, horse 4. __________________________, for wot’st thou whom thou mov’st?

      The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm 7. __________________________

      And burgonet of men. He’s speaking now,

      Or murmuring "Where’s my serpent 8. __________________________ of old Nile?"

      For so he calls me. Now I feed myself

      With most delicious poison 9. __________________________. Think on me,

      That am with Phoebus’ amorous pinches black 10. __________________________,

      And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted 11. __________________________ Caesar,

      When thou wast here above the ground, I was

      A/an morsel 12. __________________________ for a monarch. And great Pompey

      Would stand and make his eyes 13. __________________________ grow in my brow 14. __________________________;

      There would he anchor his aspect and die

      With looking on his life 15. __________________________.

      ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

      ACT IV, SCENE XII

      1.What’s something that you never leave home without?

      2.What’s a specific part or feature of #1?

      3.What’s a noun that you strive for?

      4.Plural body part.

      5.Another plural body part.

      6.When you were a teen, this adjective described you perfectly.

      7.Pick an action verb that is aggressive, and put it in past tense.

      8.When your supposed pal makes you feel this adjective, it’s time to show her the door.

      9.What’s the name of the town you live in?

      10.Pick an adjective, any adjective.

      11.Yes, another body part.

      12.What’s a place you love going to?

      13.And another body part—last one.

      14.Pick a verb that one person does to another, in past tense.

      15.An exclamation that you cry out in frustration!

      O iPAD MiNi, thy SCREEN shall I see no more!

      ANTONY

      O sun 1. __________________________, thy uprise 2. __________________________ shall I see no more!

      Fortune 3. __________________________ and Antony part here; even here

      Do we shake hands 4. __________________________. All come to this? The hearts

      That spanieled me at heels 5. __________________________, to whom I gave

      Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets

      On blossoming 6. __________________________ Caesar; and this pine is barked

      That overtopped 7. __________________________ them all. Betrayed 8. __________________________ I am.

      O this false soul of Egypt 9. __________________________! This grave 10. __________________________ charm,

      Whose eye 11. __________________________ becked forth my wars and called them home 12. __________________________,

      Whose bosom 13. __________________________ was my crownet, my chief end,

      Like a right gypsy hath at fast and

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