Author: Ken Ludwig
Cited by
- Simon Reade (1)
- IN: Dear Mr Shakespeare (2009) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: JACK WARNER: This Shakespeare stuff ain't bad. I read some this morning and there are parts in English.
SAM WARNER: It's poison, Jackie.
HARRY WARNER: We'll lose a fortune.
SAM WARNER: Ya know the title ain't so bad/. 'Shakespeare.' Sounds like a biopic.
JACK WARNER: It ain't called 'Shakespeare!'
ALRBERT WARNER: Sam, it's called 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
SAM WARNER: Well that'll put us right in the crapper.
ALBERT WARNER: Maybe we should get a rewrite man.
HARRY WARNER: Mankiewitz is good.
ALBERT WARNER: Or Morrison.
SAM WARNER: Or pay this guy Shakespeare to do it.
ALRBERT WARNER: He's dead, you idiot.
SAM WARNER: Then he'll cost us peanuts.
FROM: Shakespeare in Hollywood, (2004), Play, US