Fan Fiction assignment for The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood

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Fan Fiction assignment for The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood

Neil Schleifer

In Gary Blackwood’s THE SHAKESPEARE STEALER, the orphan boy Widge discovers that Julian, his fellow acting intern at the Globe Theatre, is actually a girl, Julia, in disguise. This gender-bending hidden identity inspires playwright William Shakespeare to invent the character of Viola, who pretends to be the boy Cesario, in TWELFTH NIGHT.

Your assignment is to create another story in which Widge encounters one or more of Shakespeare’s other characters in real life and inspires Mr. Shakespeare to write their story. Please choose from one of the following five scenarios:

1) Widge encounters the three weird sisters from MACBETH and, knowing their power to predict the future, gets them to reveal his own!

2) Widge meets ROMEO AND JULIET as they plan to elope.

3) Widge thinks he’s seeing double when he sees two pairs of twins, Masters and Servants from COMEDY OF ERRORS, and goes to the theatre’s physician for an eye check-up.

4) Widge plays matchmaker between the cocky fencing-master Petruchio Armin and the sharp-tongued cook, Goodwife Kate Willingson and tries to help Mr. Armin with THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.

Your story may be no shorter than three-typed pages, double-spaced, Arial font, 12 point.

Page margins may be 1”. Please include at least five vocabulary words from the following list:

alcove

genial

curfew

rapier

urchin

derisive

jerkin

prudent

stance

melancholy

Be sure to use the vocabulary words appropriately and correctly and every time you use a vocabulary word be sure to indicate it by having it appear in bold.