For my second paper I decided to write a play mimicking a Shakespeare play. I love to write so I thought I'd enjoy writing my first play.... I didn't. It is so difficult to put the amount of detail I like to have in my stories and poems in conversation. My characters started sounding like spokespeople for those "Paid Programming Specials" on daytime television.
My idea was to write a comedy based on what I found about Shakespeare's life. I found out that Shakespeare married a woman named Anne Hathaway (like the actress) but the author of the site I found claimed that it was a "shot-gun wedding." Apparently, Shakespeare impregnated Hathaway and Hathaway's father demanded a wedding.
I was going to modernize the story with the main 2 characters Will and LeAnne meeting and performing their extracurricular activities and being forced to marry.
Starting with something like:
Will dreaded the day that he had to commit to LeAnne. He didn't know her very well. She was just the fling he planned to walk out on. She was hot and he was a college man, he didn't have time for her feelings. Their meetings were casual as far as he was concerned.
LeAnne's "Big Daddy" as she called him was as Southern as they come. Deer heads on the walls and a gun rack in his truck. Big Daddy never expected his baby girl to do such a thing... and out of wedlock too?! He was not going to stand for such a sin. Big Daddy wasn't gonna let the baby or his reputation as church-goer suffer.
Will wasn't so sure about the idea of marrying LeAnne but he couldn't have HIS kid be raised without his influence... Big Daddy's guns were pretty convincing too. Unwilling William rented a trashed apartment for him and his blushing yet bulging bride.
In Shakespeare's comedies, he usually has the happy ending involve a marriage but I wanted the new couple to learn to love each other and end with Will rushing his beautiful wife to the hospital where he coaches her through her labor. Then, Will holds his glowing baby boy that he wouldn’t give up for the world.
(It’s nice to dream right? J)
That is a really good idea for a story! and it sounds fine to me:)
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I was about to start dancing in class! jaajaja, but I need extra credit, so I'm going to write it and aske her if she can give me extra credit for it:) hopefully she will!
GOOD JOB on your little story:)