The 12 plays are 99% Shakespeare’s words, vacuumed to an average of 69% of the originals.
The scripts are lineated as thoughts, not prose or verse.
They are not static, scholarly translations, to be silently read and compared;
they are condensed, dramatic originals, to be
practiced and played.

Will’s three professions were actor, writer and businessman.
If he were alive today….

So, what do you think, a comedy, a tragedy, or a tragicomedy?

So, what do you think, a comedy, a tragedy, or a tragicomedy?
A Morality play? The Seven Deadly Sins!!!!!!!
His friends can fight over the other 6 roles!
His Greed will be spectacular, of course!!
The callbacks for the Lust role, should be very competitive!



Note differences between static, silent reading and out loud inventing.
Acting involves making more decisions; colouring print with thought and sound.

Will did not hire scholars, just good actors who could be heard and understood!
The Folio texts need vacuuming, formatting, judicious noting and practice.
Then we can perform Will’s best words, rather than ingest some scholar’s blather.