1 | * Shakespeare's ''epic'' [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/9b9e9bdb9cdea80bb444633379fa800b/tumblr_inline_mzkr57BeLG1s1h2q7.gif shrug]] when asked where his pages are. |
2 | * Chasing after Viola to find out about this [[WholesomeCrossdresser Thomas Kent]] fellow, Shakespeare decides to climb up the rose vines to Viola's balcony. Just when audiences think we're about to see a re-staging of the infamous balcony scene from the play... it's the ''nurse'' who catches Shakespeare climbing up, and both are freaked out by the surprise. |
3 | * During the opening audition for ''Romeo And Ethel the Pirate's Daughter'', every would-be performer auditions by using the same lines from [[TheRival Marlowe's]] ''Faustus'', which annoys Shakespeare to no end. The icing on the cake is his look of disbelief when Henslowe immediately approves the audition of Wabash, who has a pronounced stutter; he explains to Shakespeare that Wabash is his tailor, and he promised him a role as a favour (presumably in place of payment for clothes). |
4 | * Just the very idea that all of English literature is awaiting the epic that is "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter." |
5 | -->"...see, there's this pirate..." |
6 | * Ned's reaction to learning about Mercutio's death. |
7 | -->...He ''dies''? |
8 | * How Shakespeare gets Ned to take the part in the first place: |
9 | -->'''Will:''' [Your character's] name is Mercutio.\ |
10 | '''Ned:''' What's the name of the play?\ |
11 | '''Will:''' ''Mercutio''.\ |
12 | '''Henslowe:''' It is?\ |
13 | '''Will:''' Shh! |
14 | * The London cabbies, in rowing boats. |
15 | -->'''Boatman:''' I had that Christopher Marlowe in my boat once. |
16 | * The boatman rolling his eyes at Shakespeare's PurpleProse. |
17 | -->'''Boatman:''' Writer, is he?\ |
18 | '''Shakespeare:''' ROW YOUR BOAT! |
19 | * Shakespeare, heartbroken at the knowledge that he and Viola can't be together, tells the troupe that he's rewritten the plot of the play, and the viewer recognizes the familiar story; the lovers are separated, and due to a tragic misunderstanding they both commit suicide. The actors sit in hushed silence, clearly affected by this turn in events...except for Henslowe, who was promised a comedy; he sarcastically muses: "Well, that should have them ''rolling'' in the aisles." |
20 | * Burbage and his troupe storm the Rose over Shakespeare's attempted seduction of Rosaline and taking payment for a play he has already given to the other company; Henslowe's first reaction when fighting breaks out on the stage is to furrow his brow and leaf through the script, clearly thinking "I don't remember ''this'' scene..." |
21 | * Shakespeare starts panicking when it looks like things are going to go wrong from the start with the premiere of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet.'' Just as his fears are calmed when Wabash overcomes his stutter and delivers a brilliant opening, they flare ''right'' back up when it turns out that 'Juliet's' voice has suddenly broken: |
22 | -->'''Sam:''' Master Shakespeare! |
23 | -->'''Shakespeare:''' I'll be with you, Sam- ''(DoubleTake)'' '''S-Sam...''' |
24 | -->'''Sam:''' ''(tearfully)'' It's not my ''fault'', Master Shakespeare; I could ''do'' it yesterday! |
25 | -->'''Shakespeare:''' Do me a speech. D-do me a line! |
26 | -->'''Sam:''' ''(voice cracking ''twice'')'' Parting is such sweet sorrow. |
27 | -->'''Shakespeare:''' *squeak of horrified despair* |
28 | ** Henslowe unsuccessfully attempts to calm him down: |
29 | -->'''Henslowe:''' The show must... you know... ''(trails off aimlessly)'' |
30 | -->'''Shakespeare:''' ''[[TheShowMustGoOn Go on?!]]'' |
31 | -->'''Henslowe:''' Juliet does not come on for twenty pages; it will be all right. |
32 | -->'''Shakespeare:''' ''How'' will it?! |
33 | -->'''Henslowe:''' I don't know; it's a mystery! |
34 | * Pretty much everything involving the bloodthirsty young scamp, Creator/JohnWebster (who would grow up to become a writer of particularly gruesome tragedies), ESPECIALLY the scene where he tips off Mr. Tilney about Viola performing in drag: |
35 | -->'''Viola:''' Nobody knew. |
36 | -->'''Webster:''' ''(pointing at Shakespeare)'' He did! I saw him kissing her bubbies! |
37 | * While the Admiral's Men are busy [[DrowningMySorrows drowning their sorrows]] following Tilney closing the Rose, Ralph decides that he's not working, downs his drink, and [[CantHoldHisLiquor passes out then and there]]. |
38 | * As Lord Wessex and Viola leave the church, a flyer for ''Romeo and Juliet'' hits him in the face, blown there by the wind. |
39 | * When Shakespeare changes the premise of the play, someone asks Ralph (one of the actors) if he thinks is anything funny is going on. |
40 | --> '''Ralph:''' I was a Pirate King, and now I'm a Nurse. That's funny. |
41 | * Later, a prostitute asks Ralph to tell her about the play, and he claims that the nurse is the main character to impress her. |
42 | * When Tilney closes down the theater, he initially mistakes the male actor playing Juliet for [[DeliberateValuesDissonance the woman illegally performing on stage]] and pulls up his dress to try and prove it. |
43 | * When Tilney shows up during the final performance, saying there is a woman on the stage, Ralph (in his nurse costume) acts as if he thinks they're talking about him. |
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