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And Titania, the fairy queen,
awakens in the forest glade

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and spies the lowly
weaver cavorting.

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Mr Condell, Mr Kempe,
in your own time.

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What angel wakes me
from my flowery bed?

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The finch, the sparrow and the
lark, the plainsong cuckoo grey.

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I pray thee, gentle mortal,
sing again. I love thee.

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And woof, bang!

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Show stops, roof comes off, audience
wets its collective puffling pants.

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There's your most
celebrated comic moment

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in the entire history of
English theatre right there!

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Celebrated comic moment, Will?

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I don't understand. Surely for it
to be a celebrated comic moment,

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it has to be funny.

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It js funny.

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The fairy queen awakens
from an enchanted sleep

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and is instantly smitten
by the first person she sees.

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A common weaver!

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He's common!

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You know my rule -

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all people of lowly birth
are inherently hilarious

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because of their pathetic
stupidity and delusions of grandeur.

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It's not enough, Will.

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When you spoke of this
Midsummer Night's Dream

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you promised a
comic tour de force.

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I was expecting at the
very least a funny name.

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And an inspired visual gag.

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And yet you give us neither.

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So never mind the finch, the
sparrow and the lark, mate.

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What you've got here
is a fresh-plucked turkey.

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Ha!

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It's A Midsummer
Night's Snooze, Will.

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And unless you can come up with a
funny name and an inspired visual gag,

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then I must needs
find a writer who can!

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Good day at rehearsals, master?

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No, Botsky, it wasn't.
They don't like the play.

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They think it's dull
and needs more gags.

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That's not a very
helpful comment, is it?

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No, it isn't.

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I mean, they could say
that about any of your plays.

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Just get me some ale and pie!

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What do you think,
Kate? Loving it?

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I bet you are.

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So, the whole plot
depends on the machinations

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of this mischievous band of fairies
meddling in matters of the human heart?

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Absolutely. Got to
love a meddling fairy.

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Box-office gold!

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And the lovers' eventual
devotions are dictated

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by the administering
of a magic potion?

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A magic potion, yes.
Punters love all that.

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Mr Shakespeare, is
your play suggesting

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that a drugged person is
capable of giving consent?

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What? Blimey, I
didn't see that coming!

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But, you know, if the drug is
administered by well-intentioned fairies...

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that's all right, isn't it?

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No, it isn't!

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Goodness gracious,
Mr Shakespeare.

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This appalling Puck figure
goes about drugging people

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so they can then be
forced into intimate relations

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with those whom they
had previously despised.

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That is sexual assault,
Mr Shakespeare.

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God's boobikins, Kate. If...

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if a mischievous sprite

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can't administer a simple love
potion to a sleeping innocent

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without being accused of
assault, then... then I give up!

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Really... you must curb your tendency
to apply a joyless sociopolitical agenda

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to every situation.

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He's right, Kate.

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If you keep banging on with
all this whiny-woman stuff,

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you'll never get a
man to marry you.

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I don't want a man to marry me if
it means I must needs deny myself!

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Kate, have a care.

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As you are well aware,

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clever, gobby birds like you who
remain unmarried be thought witches.

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And as one who looks upon
you almost as a daughter,

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I'd really rather not see you burnt
at the stake or drowned in the pond.

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If I marry, it will be to a man
who respects me for my mind.

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You have spoiled me
for that, Mr Shakespeare,

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treating me as your equal
and seeking my opinions.

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Well, yes, although, kind of
only when they're complimentary.

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Speaking of which,
predatory sprites aside,

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do you like my
Midsummer Night's Dream?

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If I'm honest, I think it's all a bit
mimsy-whimsy soppy-grotty doodah.

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Mimsy-whimsy
soppy-grotty doodah?

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How can you say that?

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Well, for a start, three of the
principal characters are fairies.

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And proudly so.

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I would have thought that you of all
people would agree that it's high time

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that members of the
FSNEP community

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were properly represented
in popular drama projects.

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FSNEP?

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Fairy, sprite,
nymph, elf and pixie.

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FSNEP characters are appallingly
underrepresented in mainstream culture.

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So, you really do
believe in fairies, then?

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Absolutely. I've met one.

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You've met an actual fairy?

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Indeed I have.

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A puckish sprite, a will-o'-the-wisp
in the employ of the fairy queen.

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‘Twas from him that I
got the idea for the potion,

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and it is to just such a potion that I
owe the love of mine own sweet Anne.

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Is this one of your jokes?

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Could be. I mean, it's not
funny - that's usually a clue.

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I'm not joking. It
happened many years ago.

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I'd just met gorgeous Anne
Hathaway, the milkmaid,

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and, after a whirlwind of sweet
romance and heartfelt emotion, had...

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Knocked her up.

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Knocked her proper
up the muffly-duffington.

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My fault entirely.

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She had begged that I take
care in my frenzied haste,

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and promised had I to ensure that the
stranger in the purple helm who had...

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who had come a-visiting
beneath her petticoats

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would ne'er outstay his welcome

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but would instead withdraw post-haste
before, like fiery Mount Vesuvius

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disgorging hot lava upon Pompeii,
an unfortunate eruption occurred.

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But cometh the
hour... cometh the man.

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And Anne, being fertile
as a new-sown meadow

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spread thick with fresh
and steaming dung,

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was pregnant before I'd had so
much as a chance to light a pipe

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and ask how it
had beeneth for her.

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Thus was our wedding day set.

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Are you actually going anywhere
with this tsunami of oversharing?

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Yeah. I thought you were about
to tell us about meeting a fairy.

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I'm getting to that.

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You see, I loved
Anne with all my heart

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but I feared that she did only marry
me because she was knocked uppeth.

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To be honest, I've always
lacked a bit of confidence with girls.

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Yeah. Being bald.

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I am not bald!

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I have a tall face.

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Besides which, in those days,
my face was much shorter.

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I had gorgeous raven locks

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and as pretty an ankle as any
hot-blooded youth in South Warwickshire.

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But, Mr Shakespeare, if your locks
were raven and your ankle pretty,

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why didst thou lack confidence?

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Well, I'm not saying I wasn't a
catch. I was hot stuff, all right,

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just not as hot
stuff as mine Anne.

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She was just such a classy bird!

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Master, I love Mrs S to
death, but classy...? You think?

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I remember you telling me she
didn't even let go of the cow's teats.

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‘Tis true, she
was a dutiful maid

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and verily did milk a bucketful
whilst I didst roist around the back...

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which, I do confess,

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lent a surprisingly erotic
frisson to the encounter.

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Anne was just so sexsome.

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All did love her,
and she love them.

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And many a lusty-trousered sap-bursting
roister had plighted his troth before me,

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and she didn't
marry any of them.

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She was 26 by the time
she gave my troth a plighting.

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Why, having waited so
long, did she choose me?

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Because she was
up the duffington.

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Exactly.

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She Aadto marry me.

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But she didn't have to love me.

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And distraught was I at the
prospect of a reluctant bride.

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And that's when I
met the fairy sprite.

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Blimey! I'd forgotten about him.

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Not me, Bottom.

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You never forget
your first Puck.

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Wandered had I alone
in the merry greenwood.

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Blimey!

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Either I mistake your
shape and making quite,

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or else you are that
shrewd and knavish sprite

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call'd Robin Goodfellow
- are not you he

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that frights the
maidens of the villagery?

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Thou speak'st aright.

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I am that merry
wanderer of the night.

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I jest to Oberon
and make him smile,

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when I a fat and
bean-fed horse beguile.

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But since in daisy chains
I've got you, just call me Puck.

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That's as in "what the...?"

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Why, then, naughty sprite,
what the Puck would you with me?

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A clever bargain would
I strike with you, sir.

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In love methinks
thou art a total loser.

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But...

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Put this potion in
your sweetheart's eyes,

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and when she wakes
she'll get a big surprise.

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To him who first she
sees, her heart's enthralled,

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even if, like you, he
ends up going bald.

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And he gave me the potion.

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Oh, my goodness!
And it all came true.

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Well, not entirely.

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As you can see,
I didn't go bald,

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just a little bit less not bald,
which is a completely different thing.

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Anyway, Puck charged me
fully five shillings for the potion.

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Every penny I had, in fact.

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But a small price to pay for a lifetime
of domestic bliss, because it worked.

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Mine Anne has been
besotted with me ever since.

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Just as I am with her.

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Well, I mean, we've
had our ups and downs.

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The "dark lady"
episode, for instance?

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Sweet Emelia Lanier, daughter
of the Danish court musician,

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whom you did lust
after most hornsomely.

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Yes.

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I do admit a brief and
unfortunate infatuation there.

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And the "fair youth", whom also
did you want to roister most rigidly.

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For the final time, Bottom,

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I did not want to rigidly
roister the Earl of Southampton!

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Honestly, I just don't know
how these rumours get about!

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Well... you did write
most gushsomely

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about wanting to expend your
spirit in his waste of shame.

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By which I meant
"have a nice chat".

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Obviously.

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But never mind all that.

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The point I'm making is that my
midsummer's play be not fey whimsy

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but gritty realism.

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You don't think this Puck bloke
might have been a conman?

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Absolutely not.
The potion worked.

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Anne's constant
heart is proof of that.

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And now that we have established beyond
any doubt that A Midsummer Night's Dream

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is definitely not mimsy-whimsy
soppy-grotty doodah,

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I must return to the question of
gagging up the big reveal scene.

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I've promised Burbage that I'll give
the lowly weaver a hilarious name,

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00:11:00,927 --> 00:11:03,487
but what could that
name be, Bottom?

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00:11:04,807 --> 00:11:07,983
I ask you - Bottom,
what could it be?

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I've no idea, master.

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Also, Burbage is
expecting a big visual gag

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and I'm equally at a
loss for inspiration there.

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In come I to make
an ass of myself!

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What merry trick is this?

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Who am I?

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Oh!

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Oh, it's you, Mr Marlowe!

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00:11:32,767 --> 00:11:35,063
Oh, absolutely. I just thought I'd
have a bit of fun with my latest trophy.

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00:11:35,087 --> 00:11:37,783
Me and a couple of posh
mates just been on a stag hunt.

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Mr Marlowe, that's
an ass's head.

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Yeah. So much easier to bag.

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I mean, think about it.

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Stag - five hours creeping
through streams and gorse

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to probably miss anyway.

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Ass - tethered to a post in a
small paddock. You do the maths.

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Anyway, I thought I could hang it
here till I get my permanent digs.

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Oh, I just love its proud
brow and noble expression.

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Gosh, Kit, what fun!

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Nice to have something to take my mind off
my search for a really telling comic image

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for my midsummer's play...

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which continues to
completely elude me.

236
00:12:10,727 --> 00:12:12,303
I can't help you there, mate.

237
00:12:12,327 --> 00:12:14,303
Bottom, ale and
pie, if you please.

238
00:12:14,327 --> 00:12:17,001
And afterwards, I'd be
obliged if you'd mount my ass.

239
00:12:18,847 --> 00:12:20,997
That is not in my
job description.

240
00:12:22,167 --> 00:12:24,063
Ha-ha, did you see
what I did there?

241
00:12:24,087 --> 00:12:26,863
The head, Botsky. I
meant mount the trophy.

242
00:12:26,887 --> 00:12:29,103
Who is it?

243
00:12:29,127 --> 00:12:30,703
Be-Be careful. Let
none know I'm here.

244
00:12:30,727 --> 00:12:32,863
It's that old bastable
Robert Greene.

245
00:12:32,887 --> 00:12:33,983
Right, well, that's
all right, then.

246
00:12:34,007 --> 00:12:35,783
Goodness, you
seem a bit jumpy, Kit.

247
00:12:35,807 --> 00:12:37,183
Can't deny it, Will.

248
00:12:37,207 --> 00:12:39,183
Laying low. Debts.

249
00:12:39,207 --> 00:12:41,143
Vengeance, spying, betrayal.

250
00:12:41,167 --> 00:12:43,743
It's all getting a bit much,
and I fear for my life.

251
00:12:43,767 --> 00:12:45,903
That's why I was
wearing the ass's head.

252
00:12:45,927 --> 00:12:48,383
Going incognito, so to speak.

253
00:12:48,407 --> 00:12:53,583
Ah! Mr Shakespeare,
here I am come a-calling.

254
00:12:53,607 --> 00:12:55,663
‘Tis passing strange, Mr Greene,

255
00:12:55,687 --> 00:12:59,743
as 'tis well known about the
town that you do hate my gutlings.

256
00:12:59,767 --> 00:13:02,743
I do not visit you,
Mr Shakespeare.

257
00:13:02,767 --> 00:13:07,863
I would rather enter the dungeons of
the Spanish Inquisition testy-baubles first

258
00:13:07,887 --> 00:13:10,263
than seek your company.

259
00:13:10,287 --> 00:13:14,223
‘Tis this fortunate maid
with whom I would speak.

260
00:13:14,247 --> 00:13:16,583
Me, Mr Greene? How so?

261
00:13:16,607 --> 00:13:17,823
And why be I fortunate?

262
00:13:17,847 --> 00:13:21,063
Because I come as messenger
from the noble Lord Egeus,

263
00:13:21,087 --> 00:13:23,583
the richest man in Southwark.

264
00:13:23,607 --> 00:13:27,063
Lord Egeus, as you may
know, has been ever a soldier -

265
00:13:27,087 --> 00:13:29,023
a hard, manly bachelor life.

266
00:13:29,047 --> 00:13:32,943
The closest he has e'er come to a boon
companion to bring him comfort and love

267
00:13:32,967 --> 00:13:34,663
hath been his horse.

268
00:13:34,687 --> 00:13:36,246
Yes, I've heard those rumours.

269
00:13:37,367 --> 00:13:42,743
Now, however, he would take him
a wife and he has spied you, miss,

270
00:13:42,767 --> 00:13:46,143
upon the dilly as you flit
daintily from shop to shop.

271
00:13:46,167 --> 00:13:50,263
I can't help it. Mad
shopper, me. Love shops!

272
00:13:50,287 --> 00:13:53,583
Yes, well, His Lordship's
fancy hath been tickled.

273
00:13:53,607 --> 00:13:56,383
He therefore sends me
post-haste to plight his troth

274
00:13:56,407 --> 00:13:57,943
requesting your
hand in marriage.

275
00:13:57,967 --> 00:14:01,823
Zounds, Kate! Lord Egeus is
the richest man in Southwark.

276
00:14:01,847 --> 00:14:05,303
And fully 50 years
old, and mean and ugly,

277
00:14:05,327 --> 00:14:09,023
and most warty
be his countenance!

278
00:14:09,047 --> 00:14:11,743
And he's the richest
man in Southwark.

279
00:14:11,767 --> 00:14:16,423
And he doth also own this house.

280
00:14:16,447 --> 00:14:17,743
My mother has a lease.

281
00:14:17,767 --> 00:14:20,823
A lease which be subject to terms,
terms which be defined in courts,

282
00:14:20,847 --> 00:14:24,983
courts which be ruled by judges,
judges who owe their positions to...?

283
00:14:25,007 --> 00:14:27,383
The richest man in Southwark.

284
00:14:27,407 --> 00:14:32,561
Lord Egeus's sap is rising, and his fruity
loins do long for your tender favours.

285
00:14:33,887 --> 00:14:36,423
He demands an
answer in a fortnight.

286
00:14:36,447 --> 00:14:38,143
He may have my
answer now, Mr Greene.

287
00:14:38,167 --> 00:14:40,943
Never. Ne'er shall
I marry Lord Egeus!

288
00:14:40,967 --> 00:14:43,663
Madam, have a care. Lord
Egeus doth love you now

289
00:14:43,687 --> 00:14:48,303
as he has previously loved
only Mr Snorty Velvet Flank.

290
00:14:48,327 --> 00:14:49,543
- His horse? - Just so.

291
00:14:49,567 --> 00:14:52,863
Please him and you could sleep
on a bed of lavender-scented hay

292
00:14:52,887 --> 00:14:55,447
and wear a
diamond-studded muzzle.

293
00:14:56,727 --> 00:15:02,143
Deny him, and you
will feel his whip.

294
00:15:02,167 --> 00:15:04,063
I advise you to think again.

295
00:15:04,087 --> 00:15:06,237
Good day.

296
00:15:07,767 --> 00:15:09,903
Kate, maybe I'm
being thick here,

297
00:15:09,927 --> 00:15:12,343
but what part of the sentence
“the richest man in Southwark"

298
00:15:12,367 --> 00:15:13,663
could you not get?

299
00:15:13,687 --> 00:15:16,503
The part which says I do
not love him, Mr Marlowe!

300
00:15:16,527 --> 00:15:18,623
Kate, what's love
got to do with it?

301
00:15:18,647 --> 00:15:22,163
What be love but a
second-hand emotion?

302
00:15:24,167 --> 00:15:29,303
A woman in our times has no legal
status at all, save that defined by a man.

303
00:15:29,327 --> 00:15:32,983
She passes from being the property
of her father to that of her husband.

304
00:15:33,007 --> 00:15:36,423
Eventually, you must needs throw
yourself on the mercy of a man,

305
00:15:36,447 --> 00:15:39,303
and not all will be the
richest man in Southwark!

306
00:15:39,327 --> 00:15:42,223
I will not marry
him! I swear I won't.

307
00:15:42,247 --> 00:15:45,623
You married for love, Mr Shakespeare,
and yet you think I deserve less?

308
00:15:45,647 --> 00:15:47,063
I hate men.

309
00:15:47,087 --> 00:15:49,203
I hate, hate, hate them!

310
00:15:51,407 --> 00:15:53,023
But this is awful.

311
00:15:53,047 --> 00:15:55,823
It breaks my heart to see
the child in such distress.

312
00:15:55,847 --> 00:15:58,383
What's more, this rich
match would secure her future.

313
00:15:58,407 --> 00:16:01,743
I mean, Egeus will die soon
enough and Kate'll be set for life.

314
00:16:01,767 --> 00:16:05,063
Still, I suppose we can't
make her love the bloke.

315
00:16:05,087 --> 00:16:06,600
Can't we?

316
00:16:10,767 --> 00:16:12,143
Home am I!

317
00:16:12,167 --> 00:16:13,743
Bring ale, bring pie.

318
00:16:13,767 --> 00:16:17,223
Let all rejoice. Father is home.

319
00:16:17,247 --> 00:16:18,503
Good journey, love?

320
00:16:18,527 --> 00:16:21,343
Nothing more than the
usual hellish nightmare, Anne.

321
00:16:21,367 --> 00:16:22,703
15 hours!

322
00:16:22,727 --> 00:16:24,863
15 bloody hours,

323
00:16:24,887 --> 00:16:29,085
awaiting, and I quote, “a
member of the on-coach team".

324
00:16:31,127 --> 00:16:32,303
Oh, the irony of it.

325
00:16:32,327 --> 00:16:36,103
I can't get home because the lazy
bastable's who's supposed to get me home

326
00:16:36,127 --> 00:16:37,481
is at home.

327
00:16:38,887 --> 00:16:41,463
You're always moaning
about your journeys!

328
00:16:41,487 --> 00:16:44,543
I reckon you should write
about it, put it in your plays.

329
00:16:44,567 --> 00:16:48,703
It will be funny and also appealing
to contemporary audiences.

330
00:16:48,727 --> 00:16:52,103
But I don't want my plays to
be contemporary, daughter.

331
00:16:52,127 --> 00:16:53,263
I want them to be timeless.

332
00:16:53,287 --> 00:16:55,183
Well, why wouldn't
that be timeless?

333
00:16:55,207 --> 00:16:59,383
I'm sure it would be of great comfort to
the travelling public of some future age

334
00:16:59,407 --> 00:17:02,343
to know that my brilliant
son shared their pain.

335
00:17:02,367 --> 00:17:03,583
Oh, come now, Mum.

336
00:17:03,607 --> 00:17:06,804
I hardly think such issues will
concern travellers centuries hence.

337
00:17:07,967 --> 00:17:11,463
Do you really think the peoples of
this sceptred isle will endlessly suffer

338
00:17:11,487 --> 00:17:15,983
an underfunded, ill-run and pointlessly
fractured transport infrastructure

339
00:17:16,007 --> 00:17:17,156
to hobble the nation?

340
00:17:18,327 --> 00:17:19,556
Thou would be mad.

341
00:17:20,887 --> 00:17:23,303
What d'you reckon they're
going to do about it, then?

342
00:17:23,327 --> 00:17:27,903
Why, ‘tis certain that one day it will
not be a ragbag of private companies

343
00:17:27,927 --> 00:17:30,063
that run the means
of transport in Albion

344
00:17:30,087 --> 00:17:32,423
but the public itself

345
00:17:32,447 --> 00:17:35,783
in some form of nationally
organised collective

346
00:17:35,807 --> 00:17:38,863
run for the benefit of
all and profit of none.

347
00:17:38,887 --> 00:17:42,103
Well, I must say, that does
seem like a pretty good idea.

348
00:17:42,127 --> 00:17:48,143
Except, if ever there was such a
publicly funded service like that,

349
00:17:48,167 --> 00:17:52,923
the first thing the Queen's ministers
would do is flog it off to their mates.

350
00:17:56,767 --> 00:18:00,743
Come now, Father! I hardly
think people would be so stupid

351
00:18:00,767 --> 00:18:02,943
as to allow that to happen.

352
00:18:02,967 --> 00:18:06,943
I don't know why you bother coming
home at all if it's such a total pain!

353
00:18:06,967 --> 00:18:09,183
Why, to see you all, of course.

354
00:18:09,207 --> 00:18:12,543
Mum, the twins, you,
Sue, mine own sweet Anne.

355
00:18:12,567 --> 00:18:13,703
Not Dad, obviously.

356
00:18:13,727 --> 00:18:17,463
But... But the rest of
the family, certainly.

357
00:18:17,487 --> 00:18:20,743
Besides, I had a
yearning for the country.

358
00:18:20,767 --> 00:18:25,263
I would wander in the greenwood
once more as I did when but a youth.

359
00:18:25,287 --> 00:18:28,223
Well, if you're going to the woods,
you can pick me some mushrooms.

360
00:18:28,247 --> 00:18:33,263
You go too, Susanna, and make
sure you pick the right ones this time.

361
00:18:33,287 --> 00:18:34,863
Grandad's still coming down

362
00:18:34,887 --> 00:18:37,943
from the lot you gave him
last week with his chop.

363
00:18:37,967 --> 00:18:41,823
I have opened the doors
to spiritual perception.

364
00:18:41,847 --> 00:18:45,503
Claims he saw the haloed
head of Jesus in his gravy.

365
00:18:45,527 --> 00:18:48,758
It was a dumpling
and an onion ring!

366
00:18:50,287 --> 00:18:53,303
So, you see, Sue, now
you know the whole story,

367
00:18:53,327 --> 00:18:57,943
and I'm returned here now in search of
Puck with another love dilemma to solve.

368
00:18:57,967 --> 00:19:01,623
Did it ever occur to you, Dad, that this
Puck bloke might actually be a con artist

369
00:19:01,647 --> 00:19:05,183
who just took five bob off for you for
a bottle of water with a few petals in it?

370
00:19:05,207 --> 00:19:07,063
I told you, Sue, it worked.

371
00:19:07,087 --> 00:19:08,903
Your mum has
loved me all her life.

372
00:19:08,927 --> 00:19:10,743
Maybe she just loved you anyway.

373
00:19:10,767 --> 00:19:12,623
Nice thought, Sue,
but you're dreaming.

374
00:19:12,647 --> 00:19:15,263
What gorgeous girl like
Anne would e'er love me

375
00:19:15,287 --> 00:19:17,423
without the help
of a puckish potion?

376
00:19:17,447 --> 00:19:21,383
I'm the greatest poet in all history
but I know my limitations. I'm also...

377
00:19:21,407 --> 00:19:25,002
A fartsome baldy-boots who the
children laugh at on the village green.

378
00:19:26,207 --> 00:19:29,663
Who comes to the
greenwood with weary sigh?

379
00:19:29,687 --> 00:19:30,863
Speak up,

380
00:19:30,887 --> 00:19:33,423
for Puck would
know the reason why.

381
00:19:33,447 --> 00:19:35,623
Good sprite, some years ago,

382
00:19:35,647 --> 00:19:39,903
thou didst present me with a potion
that when administered to a sleeping soul

383
00:19:39,927 --> 00:19:42,463
would cause them to
fall in love at first sight

384
00:19:42,487 --> 00:19:44,503
with whomsoever they
encountered on awakening.

385
00:19:44,527 --> 00:19:47,103
Which is, by the way,
really, really creepy.

386
00:19:47,127 --> 00:19:48,242
It's not creepy.

387
00:19:50,407 --> 00:19:51,743
It's fun.

388
00:19:51,767 --> 00:19:53,343
And charming.

389
00:19:53,367 --> 00:19:55,005
And romantic.

390
00:19:56,447 --> 00:19:58,677
It's also gone up. Ten bob.

391
00:20:05,767 --> 00:20:07,583
Child...

392
00:20:07,607 --> 00:20:10,863
on the morrow, Lord Egeus
will come for his answer.

393
00:20:10,887 --> 00:20:12,343
Yes, I know.

394
00:20:12,367 --> 00:20:13,703
You have been weeping.

395
00:20:13,727 --> 00:20:14,876
No, I haven't.

396
00:20:16,087 --> 00:20:21,423
I have brought you a soothing
balm for your red and swollen eyes.

397
00:20:21,447 --> 00:20:24,103
Except they're not red and swollen,
because I haven't been crying.

398
00:20:24,127 --> 00:20:26,983
I-I think soothing
balm could help.

399
00:20:27,007 --> 00:20:28,303
I don't need balm.

400
00:20:28,327 --> 00:20:33,023
I will not quarrel with thee, child,
but I beg you, get a good night's sleep,

401
00:20:33,047 --> 00:20:34,503
and since you
have been crying...

402
00:20:34,527 --> 00:20:36,423
I have not been crying!

403
00:20:36,447 --> 00:20:38,199
Use this soothing eye balm.

404
00:20:39,527 --> 00:20:41,103
No, seriously, just...

405
00:20:41,127 --> 00:20:42,583
just put it on your eyes.

406
00:20:42,607 --> 00:20:46,043
For the love I bear
thee, I promise.

407
00:20:49,567 --> 00:20:52,143
By the fairy's false fandangle

408
00:20:52,167 --> 00:20:55,263
does this fond fool
think to gull me.

409
00:20:55,287 --> 00:20:58,623
‘Tis clear this soothing
balm of which he speaks

410
00:20:58,647 --> 00:21:02,103
is the very potion with which
he did seek to enchant his Anne.

411
00:21:02,127 --> 00:21:04,103
‘Tis certain he
intends to ensure

412
00:21:04,127 --> 00:21:06,823
that Lord Egeus be the
first person I lay eyes on

413
00:21:06,847 --> 00:21:08,103
on the morrow.

414
00:21:08,127 --> 00:21:11,943
Well, while I be very sure
that this be not magic at all

415
00:21:11,967 --> 00:21:14,263
and none but a
conman's trickery,

416
00:21:14,287 --> 00:21:19,143
nonetheless I see a way to
serve his trick back up to him

417
00:21:19,167 --> 00:21:22,903
and put an end to his
hopes that I marry Warty.

418
00:21:22,927 --> 00:21:24,743
Who the maid?

419
00:21:24,767 --> 00:21:26,121
Me the maid.

420
00:21:30,807 --> 00:21:32,783
Robert Greene
has come a-calling.

421
00:21:32,807 --> 00:21:37,343
I am arrived at this ridiculously early
hour, as instructed, Mr Shakespeare.

422
00:21:37,367 --> 00:21:41,223
A most uncivilised imposition.

423
00:21:41,247 --> 00:21:43,983
Well, you know, today
is the big decision day,

424
00:21:44,007 --> 00:21:46,823
and Kate just couldn't
wait to see Lord Egeus.

425
00:21:46,847 --> 00:21:48,143
He will be here shortly?

426
00:21:48,167 --> 00:21:52,503
I trust your urgent summons means
the girl has come to her senses.

427
00:21:52,527 --> 00:21:53,903
Absolutely.

428
00:21:53,927 --> 00:21:58,063
She will love Lord Egeus most fervently
the moment she sets eyes on him.

429
00:21:58,087 --> 00:22:02,303
But ‘tis crucial that when His
Lordship arrives we hide ourselves,

430
00:22:02,327 --> 00:22:05,463
that when Kate emerges
she sees only him.

431
00:22:05,487 --> 00:22:07,943
She must see His Lordship first.

432
00:22:07,967 --> 00:22:11,383
I need no potion to
perform my magic trick.

433
00:22:11,407 --> 00:22:14,160
Just a fine brain
and a firm resolve.

434
00:22:15,767 --> 00:22:18,463
Oh, oh, Bottom! Bottom!

435
00:22:18,487 --> 00:22:22,503
My night-time turding pot
be fully rank and loaded.

436
00:22:22,527 --> 00:22:25,743
Canst thou turf its
contents from the window?

437
00:22:25,767 --> 00:22:28,263
Oh, Bottom! Bottom!

438
00:22:28,287 --> 00:22:31,023
Kate's awake. She'll
want her turding pot turfed.

439
00:22:31,047 --> 00:22:32,047
Bottom, no!

440
00:22:33,607 --> 00:22:36,743
What angel wakes me
from my flowery bed?

441
00:22:36,767 --> 00:22:39,423
Angel? Kate, it's me, Bottom.
I've come for your turding pot.

442
00:22:39,447 --> 00:22:40,943
- You're so beautiful. - What?

443
00:22:40,967 --> 00:22:42,543
No!

444
00:22:42,567 --> 00:22:44,223
What madness is this?

445
00:22:44,247 --> 00:22:47,463
‘Tis as if I see thee
for the first time...

446
00:22:47,487 --> 00:22:49,303
My Bottom!

447
00:22:49,327 --> 00:22:50,623
Come.

448
00:22:50,647 --> 00:22:53,703
Embrace... my Bottom!

449
00:22:53,727 --> 00:22:56,103
Kiss... my Bottom!

450
00:22:56,127 --> 00:23:02,223
Caress, cuddle and
delight... my Bottom!

451
00:23:02,247 --> 00:23:03,823
- Bottom's his name. - Oh!

452
00:23:03,847 --> 00:23:05,863
And, of course,
that's all right, then.

453
00:23:05,887 --> 00:23:07,983
Except not!

454
00:23:08,007 --> 00:23:10,503
Lord Egeus will do
dark murder to us all!

455
00:23:10,527 --> 00:23:12,643
His Grace, the Lord Egeus.

456
00:23:13,767 --> 00:23:15,201
I've come for the girl.

457
00:23:16,247 --> 00:23:18,223
I'm sorry, my lord,
but I am spoken for.

458
00:23:18,247 --> 00:23:19,943
I love my Bottom.

459
00:23:19,967 --> 00:23:22,063
And with good reason.

460
00:23:22,087 --> 00:23:24,223
Fine buttocks.

461
00:23:24,247 --> 00:23:25,983
Strong flanks.

462
00:23:26,007 --> 00:23:27,543
Like a noble horse.

463
00:23:27,567 --> 00:23:32,183
It's your athletic equine
quality that attracts me.

464
00:23:32,207 --> 00:23:37,823
Your Grace, this foolish wicked
girl doth reject your advances.

465
00:23:37,847 --> 00:23:40,063
She loveth another.

466
00:23:40,087 --> 00:23:42,943
Never! If I can't have
her, no-one shall!

467
00:23:42,967 --> 00:23:44,623
I will ruin her!

468
00:23:44,647 --> 00:23:46,343
I will ruin you all!

469
00:23:46,367 --> 00:23:48,743
Bottom, grab Mr
Marlowe's trophy,

470
00:23:48,767 --> 00:23:52,556
and when I shout, "Ass!"
put it on, and everybody duck.

471
00:23:57,967 --> 00:23:59,640
Look over here, Lord Egeus!

472
00:24:01,087 --> 00:24:02,407
Ass!

473
00:24:09,727 --> 00:24:14,039
What angel wakes me
from my flowery bed?

474
00:24:15,207 --> 00:24:18,359
You are the most attractive
biped I have ever seen.

475
00:24:19,687 --> 00:24:21,343
I do love thee!

476
00:24:21,367 --> 00:24:23,103
I shall mount thee!

477
00:24:23,127 --> 00:24:24,303
No, oh, oh!

478
00:24:24,327 --> 00:24:26,823
Run, Bottom!

479
00:24:26,847 --> 00:24:29,521
Lose him in the local
paddock! He can take his pick!

480
00:24:31,407 --> 00:24:33,023
What madness is this?

481
00:24:33,047 --> 00:24:34,783
There is sorcery afoot!

482
00:24:34,807 --> 00:24:38,641
Lord Egeus, what aileth thee?!

483
00:24:39,967 --> 00:24:42,083
Well, that was all a bit weird.

484
00:24:43,967 --> 00:24:48,943
Long story, Kit, but I think we've
heard the last of Lord Egeus's infatuation.

485
00:24:48,967 --> 00:24:52,303
I am completely
stunned, Mr Shakespeare.

486
00:24:52,327 --> 00:24:54,023
The potion worked.

487
00:24:54,047 --> 00:24:57,143
Well, of course it worked. You're
in love with Bottom, aren't you?

488
00:24:57,167 --> 00:24:59,543
God knows how
I'm going to fix that.

489
00:24:59,567 --> 00:25:01,503
I'm not in love with Bottom.

490
00:25:01,527 --> 00:25:03,423
I didn't use the potion.

491
00:25:03,447 --> 00:25:05,423
I just wanted to find
a way to stop you

492
00:25:05,447 --> 00:25:08,023
trying to make me marry
someone I didn't love.

493
00:25:08,047 --> 00:25:09,503
Clever bird, Will.

494
00:25:09,527 --> 00:25:12,903
They'll end up making a deal of
trouble in the world, just you watch.

495
00:25:12,927 --> 00:25:15,863
But I take back everything
I said about your play.

496
00:25:15,887 --> 00:25:18,903
Turns out it really
is grittily realistic.

497
00:25:18,927 --> 00:25:20,103
Yes.

498
00:25:20,127 --> 00:25:21,863
But Burbage won't stage it.

499
00:25:21,887 --> 00:25:25,263
Or at least, not unless I can come up
with a really funny name for the weaver

500
00:25:25,287 --> 00:25:27,263
Titania falls in love with

501
00:25:27,287 --> 00:25:29,961
and an inspired visual
gag for her to wake up to.

502
00:25:31,007 --> 00:25:33,223
Really, I should be
working on it now.

503
00:25:33,247 --> 00:25:36,543
But what with Bottom putting
on the ass's head and...

504
00:25:36,567 --> 00:25:39,685
Lord Egeus falling in love with
him, I've been a bit distracted.

505
00:25:44,367 --> 00:25:45,641
Hang on.

506
00:25:46,607 --> 00:25:48,325
Hang the futtock on!

507
00:25:52,167 --> 00:25:53,863
It's going very well, Will.

508
00:25:53,887 --> 00:25:56,063
Yes. And the big
scene's still to come.

509
00:25:56,087 --> 00:25:57,783
Hello.

510
00:25:57,807 --> 00:26:01,783
I heard there was a show needed
stopping, a roof that needed raising.

511
00:26:01,807 --> 00:26:05,623
I can't believe you gave my name
to a bloomin' donkey-headed clown.

512
00:26:05,647 --> 00:26:08,143
Oh, don't be such a snob,
Botsky. You have lent your name

513
00:26:08,167 --> 00:26:10,823
to what is destined to become
the funniest comic scene

514
00:26:10,847 --> 00:26:12,743
in all English
Renaissance theatre.

515
00:26:12,767 --> 00:26:14,863
Yeah, because there's
so much competition!

516
00:26:14,887 --> 00:26:18,517
Mr Kempe, stick the funny head on
and go out there and make theatre history.

517
00:26:26,327 --> 00:26:29,783
What angel wakes me
from my flowery bed?

518
00:26:29,807 --> 00:26:32,023
The finch, the
sparrow and the lark,

519
00:26:32,047 --> 00:26:34,183
the plainsong cuckoo grey,

520
00:26:34,207 --> 00:26:36,823
whose note full many
a man doth mark,

521
00:26:36,847 --> 00:26:39,423
and dares not answer... nay!

522
00:26:43,207 --> 00:26:44,743
Listen to it, Will.

523
00:26:44,767 --> 00:26:49,263
The very first laughs for the big donkey
gag in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

524
00:26:49,287 --> 00:26:52,183
Laughs destined, I am
sure, to ring down the ages,

525
00:26:52,207 --> 00:26:56,223
as generation after generation
discover your genius anew

526
00:26:56,247 --> 00:26:59,863
and adds its voice to the
ongoing chorus of merriment.

527
00:26:59,887 --> 00:27:01,103
Absolutely.

528
00:27:01,127 --> 00:27:04,343
And those who don't find it
funny will feel obliged to pretend to,

529
00:27:04,367 --> 00:27:08,423
adding their glazed,
forced, teeth-gritted garglings

530
00:27:08,447 --> 00:27:10,783
to the merry cacophony of mirth.

531
00:27:10,807 --> 00:27:12,161
Happy with that.

532
00:27:18,447 --> 00:27:20,263
Quite a story, husband.

533
00:27:20,287 --> 00:27:23,463
You gave Kate a balm to
soothe her troubled eyes.

534
00:27:23,487 --> 00:27:24,583
That's right.

535
00:27:24,607 --> 00:27:28,863
But actually it was a potion you got
from a woodland sprite to make her love

536
00:27:28,887 --> 00:27:31,903
- whom first she saw upon awakening?
- Yes, that's right.

537
00:27:31,927 --> 00:27:33,486
Funny, that.

538
00:27:35,007 --> 00:27:39,683
I recall upon our wedding night you giving
me a balm to soothe my troubled eyes.

539
00:27:40,887 --> 00:27:46,303
Oh, right, yes, but... of course,
that was eye balm, my love.

540
00:27:46,327 --> 00:27:48,398
Well, it doesn't matter
anyway. I didn't use it.

541
00:27:51,407 --> 00:27:53,903
You... You didn't?

542
00:27:53,927 --> 00:27:55,383
No.

543
00:27:55,407 --> 00:27:57,543
My eyes weren't troubled.

544
00:27:57,567 --> 00:28:01,242
And I don't need no bloomin'
potion to love you either.

545
00:28:02,247 --> 00:28:04,921
You fartsome old baldy-boots.

546
00:28:13,287 --> 00:28:16,063
If we shadows have offended,

547
00:28:16,087 --> 00:28:19,223
think but this
and all is mended.

548
00:28:19,247 --> 00:28:24,663
That you have but slumbered
here while these visions did appear,

549
00:28:24,687 --> 00:28:27,503
and this weak and idle theme

550
00:28:27,527 --> 00:28:29,882
no more yielding but a dream.

551
00:28:31,407 --> 00:28:35,263
If fun you've had
and more fun seek...

552
00:28:35,287 --> 00:28:38,783
come... dream again with us...

553
00:28:38,807 --> 00:28:40,127
next week.