Today’s Totally Random
Lines
A noise within crying
‘Room for the Queen!’
Enter
Queen
Katherine, usher’d by the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk: she kneels. The king
riseth from his state, takes her up, kisses and placeth her by him.
Stage Direction
King Henry the Eighth Act I, Scene ii
It was such a long stage direction, and those are so rare, that I decided to give it to you as today’s line. I think I’ve done that before, haven’t I?
This gives us something to consider about Will’s works especially, but also about drama in general: it’s all about the dialogue. I guess that’s obvious, but I think sometimes we overlook it. It does give me pause to wonder, and I think I’ve voiced this thought before too, what kind of writer Will would have been if he was writing in some other form. Well, we have a taste of this with his few long poems and his sonnets. But I can’t help but wonder what he would have been as a novelist, or even an essayist; or maybe a biographer - perhaps even an autobiographer.
In the meantime, I guess we just have to spend our
time marveling at what he was able to do with dialogue. It’s an interesting
thing to think about.
1 comment:
Maybe he chose to write plays and sonnets because he knew narrative wasn't his forte. In fact, maybe there's narratives he wrote that we don't even know about because they just never became popular.
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