shakes01.mp3
Fennyman: Henslowe, do you know what happens to a man who doesn't pay his debt? His boots catch fire!
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shakes02.mp3
Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush): It's a crowd tickler. Mistaken identities, shipwreck, pirate king, a bit with a dog, and love triumphant! Lambert: I think I've seen it. I didn't like it.
Henslowe: But this time it is by Shakespeare.
Fennyman: What's it called?
Henslowe: "Romeo and Ethel the Pirates Daughter."
Fennyman: Good title.
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shakes03.mp3
Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes): Words, words, words. Once I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empires. Love that binds two hearts together come hell, fire, and brimstone. For six spence a line I could cause a riot in a nunnery.
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shakes04.mp3
Will Shakespeare: I have lost my gift. It is if my quill is broken. As if the organ of my imagination is dried up. As if the proud tower of my genius has collapsed. Psychiatrist: Interesting.
Will Shakespeare: Nothing comes.
Psychiatrist: Most interesting.
Will Shakespeare: It's like trying to pick a lock with a wet herring.
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shakes05.mp3
Rosaline: When will you write me a sonnet, Will?
Will Shakespeare: I have lost my gift.
Rosaline: You left it in my bed. Come to look for it again.
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shakes06.mp3
Henslowe: Love, and a bit with a dog. That's what they want.
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shakes07.mp3
Marlowe (Rupert Everett): I have a new one nearly finished and better. "The Massacre of Paris."
Will Shakespeare: Good title.
Marlowe: Yours?
Will Shakespeare: "Romeo and Ethel the Pirates Daughter." ...Yes, I know, I know.
Marlowe: What is the story?
Will Shakespeare: Well, there's this pirate...
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shakes08.mp3
Lord Wessex: Is she obedient?
Sir Robert de Lesseps: As any mule in Christendom, but if you are the man to ride her, there are rubies in the saddlebag.
Lord Wessex: I like her!
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shakes09.mp3
Lord Wessex: I've spoken with your father.
Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow): So my lord. I speak with him every day.
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shakes10.mp3
Lord Wessex: I can not shed blood in her house, but I will cut your throat anon. Do you have a name?
Will Shakespeare: Christopher Marlowe, at your service.
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