Shakespeare Chain, Anyone?

[Selena_Kitt]

Ok... I have no idea if anyone else is gonna bite on this idea... BUT...

I'd like to start a Shakespeare chain story... let's call it (for now):

Shakespeare Uncensored

(alternate titles: Shakespeare in Lust; Blue Shakespeare etc.)

The idea is to rewrite Shakespeare, and put in the "omitted" sex scenes. It doesn't have to be written as a play... or even in the style of Shakespeare (which might be a tad difficult) but just using the characters. Of course, you can have fun with Shakespearean dialogue, as you wish, or not... it's up to you...

You don't have to rewrite the whole play... we're just talking about putting in "missing" scenes within the context of the play... The characters are (generally) so well-known we don't have to re-tell an entire story, I don't think... we can give a little backstory, perhaps, if necessary... artistic license...

So, just think... Romeo and Juliet is an obvious one, what happens after he climbs up her balcony?

Or Orlando and Rosalind in "As You Like It"... maybe he finds out who she really is when he comes on to"Ganymede"?

There's the incestuous stuff that could have gone on in King Lear, with his daughters...

Petruchio and Katharine in "Taming of the Shrew" would be hot...!

Miranda and Ferdinand in "The Tempest"...

the list goes on...

Here is a link, if you can't remember them all: Index of Shakespeare's Plays

Anyone wanna try?

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Bard's Tales Chain

At the top of each entry, you should put the following:

The "Shakespeare Uncensored" Chain Story Series

Welcome to Lit’s own “Globe Theater.” On our stage, you will witness (through a bit of artistic license on each author’s part) various erotic scenes that we feel may have been “omitted” from Shakespeare’s original plays. We hope you enjoy!

Bard’s Tales: Romeo and Juliet
SelenaKittyn’s Submission Date: May 5
POSTED 5/11/06

Bard’s Tales: Macbeth
3113’s Submission Date: May 10
POSTED 5/16/06

Bard’s Tales: Hamlet
The Earl’s Submission Date: May 15
POSTED 5/22/06

Bard’s Tales: Taming of the Shrew
MistressJett’s Submission Date: May 30
POSTED: 6/7/06

Bard’s Tales: Midsummer Night’s Dream
Pagrl’s Submission Date: June 12

Bard’s Tales: Henry V
AuroraBlack’s Submission Date: June 19

Bard’s Tales: King Lear
Elizabeth T’s Submission Date: June ??

Bard’s Tales: Othello
Salvor-Hardon’s Submission Date: June ??

 

[MissBri]

 

[Selena_Kitt]

If not enough people are interested, I can shelve it for later in the year... we'll see if anyone else bites...

 

[MissBri]

 

[3113]

Oooo. Dibs on MacBeth. Though Polanski's version pretty much covered the "uncensored" parts, now didn't it?

 

[TheEarl]

Oh, I have such a good idea for Hamlet. Just a question of finding time.

The Earl

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Oh yay!!!!!! People really like the idea!

(and who says porn-er-erotica writers aren't well-read, huh?? )

I can push the schedule off a month, if time is a problem... I have a lot on my plate, too... start it in mid-April or so....

I'm just happy people are interested *doing the snoopy dance*

(oh, and I'm nabbing Romeo and Juliet before it's gone, since Jett got dibs on Taming of the Shrew... )

 

[MissBri]

 

[3113]

Question!

Just one question....

If we're going to for Romeo and Juliet's censored wedding night....are we writing just a scene....or are we to somehow make this a story?

Romeo & Juliet is a story, and everyone pretty much knows how it goes. The wedding night is only a story in as much as Juliet has her first time and Romeo beds the woman he loves--knowing that after this he has to make a run for it. It is, essentially, a scene.

On the other hand, if we were to write up, say, Isabella and the Duke after the end of Measure for Measure, we could have a complete story. The M-M story is over, and now we have the Duke/Isabella story.

Can you clarify what you've got in mind here? What we should be going for? Is there an example of a story on Lit that reflects what you're thinking (not Shakespeare but scene/story?). I'm just trying to put some perimeters on this....

 

[TheEarl]

Just one question....

If we're going to for Romeo and Juliet's censored wedding night....are we writing just a scene....or are we to somehow make this a story?

Romeo & Juliet is a story, and everyone pretty much knows how it goes. The wedding night is only a story in as much as Juliet has her first time and Romeo beds the woman he loves--knowing that after this he has to make a run for it. It is, essentially, a scene.

On the other hand, if we were to write up, say, Isabella and the Duke after the end of Measure for Measure, we could have a complete story. The M-M story is over, and now we have the Duke/Isabella story.

Can you clarify what you've got in mind here? What we should be going for? Is there an example of a story on Lit that reflects what you're thinking (not Shakespeare but scene/story?). I'm just trying to put some perimeters on this....

I'd go for a vignette myself. Just a single scene, but definitely with a lot of the attributes of a story.

The Earl

 

[ElizabethWest]

Who else thinks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were gay lovers? Who knew Denmark was so intolerant.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I'd go for a vignette myself. Just a single scene, but definitely with a lot of the attributes of a story.

Yes, this is more what I was thinking of... the "missing scene" WITHIN the original text... not a prequel or sequel to it...

The wedding night is only a story in as much as Juliet has her first time and Romeo beds the woman he loves--knowing that after this he has to make a run for it. It is, essentially, a scene.

This is true... I'm imagining them all as scenes, separate chapters in the chain...

now, I suppose we can kind of bookend the whole chain to make it a "story" itself... we could have someone find the "lost manuscripts" of Shakespeare at the beginning of Chapter 1... and every chapter thereafter would be a new play, a new "missing" scene...

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Who else thinks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were gay lovers?

Are you volunteering, Elizabeth????

Someone should definitely do this one!!!!

 

[ElizabethWest]

Are you volunteering, Elizabeth????

Someone should definitely do this one!!!!

I'm not sure I remember enough Hamlet for that. And I don't know that I can do a convincing gay thing either.

 

[MissBri]

 

[Selena_Kitt]

STELLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!


think she heard me?

 

[MissBri]

 

[matriarch]

Twelfth Night

Viola as her male identity Cesario, with Countess Olivia, in the garden of Olivia's house, after she has declared her love to Viola (thinking her a man). "How quickly may one catch the plague."

I know it doesn't happen in the play, but I've always wondered what would have happened if Viola had succombed to Olivia's very blatent advances.

And 'no', I'm not offering to write it, out of practice and far too many claims on my time over the next few weeks. Just though someone might like to take it on.

(The end of Act III, Scene I)
OLIVIA
O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
In the contempt and anger of his lip!
A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon
Than love that would seem hid: love's night is noon.
Cesario, by the roses of the spring,
By maidhood, honour, truth and every thing,
I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause,
But rather reason thus with reason fetter,
Love sought is good, but given unsought better.

VIOLA
By innocence I swear, and by my youth
I have one heart, one bosom and one truth,
And that no woman has; nor never none
Shall mistress be of it, save I alone.
And so adieu, good madam: never more
Will I my master's tears to you deplore.

OLIVIA
Yet come again; for thou perhaps mayst move
That heart, which now abhors, to like his love.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I know it doesn't happen in the play, but I've always wondered what would have happened if Viola had succombed to Olivia's very blatent advances.

woo hoo!!!

Works for me!

Are you volunteering to write it???

 

[3113]

Viola had a strap-on?

 

[matriarch]

Viola had a strap-on?

Not that I'm aware, but you know those cod-pieces, you could hid just about anything in there.....lunch....shopping.....

Bump.

 

[Guest]

I have dibs on King Lear...
yeah I am bored... and school and driving are killing me

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I have dibs on King Lear...

Woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






I'm so excited


Does anyone have opinions on when we should start? It sounds like people are busy at the moment... are we thinking a mid-April start gives us enough time??

 

[MissBri]

 

[Guest]

Does anyone here read the comic Pibgorn? How about 9 Chickweed lane? the artist/creator is using the characters of both strips for a version of A Midsummers Night's Dream.


Not your every day comic occurance. I'm having a lot of fun with it.