Author: Marc and Stoppard, Tom Norman

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• Simon Reade (1)
  • IN: Dear Mr Shakespeare (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: WILL: I love your early work. 'Was this the fact that launched a thousand ships / And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" MARLOWE: I have a new one nearly done, and better. The Massacre At Paris. WILL: Good title. MARLOWE: And yours? WILL: Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter. (Beat, signs despondently.) Yes, I know. MARLOWE: What is the story? WILL: Well, there's a pirate... (Confesses) In truth, I have not written a word. MARLOWE: Romeo is...Italian. Always in and out of love. WILL: Yes, that's good. Until he meets... MARLOWE: Ethel. WIL: Do you think? MARLOWE: The daughter of his enemy. WILL: (Thoughtfully.) The daughter of his enemy. MARLOWE: His best friend is killed in a duel by Ethel's brother or something. His name is Mercutio. WILL: Mercutio...good name.
    FROM: Shakespeare in Love, (1998), Play, UK