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Codpieces
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'To be or not to be?' may be The Question, but it is not the only one. Hamlet, Part II, for example, answers a question about Hamlet that has plagued scholars, readers and play-goers for over four hundred years: What happened next? Prince Lear tackles yet another conundrum: What happened just before the start of King Lear, setting in motion the improbable events of Act I, scene 1? And in Fatal Loins, the question answered by the play is directly posed in the prologue: 'If Juliet and Romeo survive / Will their eternal passion stay alive?' "I am no stranger to Shakespearean parody… but reading Pontac I am (only slightly) mortified to find that he can write cod Shakespeare much better than Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore or myself" – Alan Bennett, from the foreword
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FATAL LOINS
Romeo and Juliet reconsidered
Fatal Loins (2001) was broadcast on BBC Radio Four.
The cast was as follows:
ROMEO, Samuel West
FRIAR LAURENCE, John Moffatt
JULIET, Rachel Atkins
NURSE, Pam Ferris
ROSALINE, Nancy Carroll
COUNTY PARIS, Ben Crowe
CHORUS, Ray Lonnen
Directed by David Hunter
Characters
FRIAR LAURENCE
ROMEO
JULIET
NURSE
COUNTY PARIS
ROSALINE
CHORUS
FATAL LOINS
(Romantic music which fades away by the middle of the Prologue.)
PROLOGUE
(Spoken by a man or woman.)
| CHORUS: | Two households both alike in dignity, |
| A boy and girl by Fortune cursed and blessed, | |
| A look, a dance, a kiss, a balcony, | |
| A wedding, several killings, and the rest; | |
| A tale of fatal loins and famous lines, | |
| Of star-crossed lovers and inept divines. | |
| But O! if stars like theirs could be uncrossed, | |
| If grief converts to joy and gore to glory, | |
| A message is delivered that was lost | |
| Which alters the direction of our story... | |
| If Juliet and Romeo survive, | |
| Will their eternal passion stay alive? |
SCENE 1
| (Mantua, a public place. FRIAR LAURENCE approaches ROMEO, both in disguise.) | |
| FRIAR LAURENCE: Prithee, good fellow, you who bustle so | |
| Along these fragrant streets of Mantua, | |
| May I – a stranger here – of thee enquire | |
| For knowledge needful to my soul and me? | |
| ROMEO: | In faith you may, O venerable sir |
| (A merchant rich to judge from your attire), | |
| Though I in Mantua be a stranger too, | |
| Nor of this city nothing know at all, | |
| Yet from the orchard of my ignorance | |
| I fain would pluck the sweet, elusive fruit | |
| You hunger for. | |
| FRIAR: | Well answered, bearded youth. |
| I seek a gentleman Verona-born, | |
| The son of a... | |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- Foreword by Alan Bennett
- HAMLET, PART II
- PRINCE LEAR
- FATAL LOINS