Saturday, February 21, 2009

It’s Not To Be

Gilliam Lakepeare was unfortunately one of the best-kept secrets in the world. He was an amazing poet and playwright. His name and identity goes unnoticed, but his works are so of the most famous in the English language. It’s difficult to understand that a writer, who’s famous and beloved works include 38 plays and 154 sonnets, is only known by a few of his peers and not the entire world. But it’s actually very simple. The legendary William Shakespeare credits Gilliam Lakespeare’s works.
The beloved William Shakespeare is actually a fraud, a thief, and a fake. By taking credit for works he didn’t write himself. William Shakespeare is not even his real name. His real name is actually Henry John. He changed it because when growing up as a struggling writer, he always wanted to be famous and he felt that his name was holding him back. He wanted a name hat sounded famous even before he can actually become. He liked the name of his classmate in school Gilliam Lakespeare. He always admired Gilliam for showing signs of being a terrific writer. He always admired his name. So when choosing a name, Shakespeare chose a name that sounded similar to Lakespeare’s name.
William Shakespeare is a well renowned writer. But actually he is a world renowned criminal. While attending school together, Lakespeare and Shakespeare were actually close friends. Even though they were the same age, Lakespeare served as Shakespeare’s mentor. He also served as his tutor whenever Shakespeare needed help in one of his failing classes. Shakespeare struggled with writing so much, that when teachers would tell the students to bring in poems the next day for homework, Lakespeare would write the poems for him. Back in those days, if a boy were interested in a girl, he would write her a love letter, usually in the form of a poem. Due to his struggle to write, the girls never noticed Shakespeare. On the contrary, Lakespeare was involved with all the girls. Shakespeare was extremely jealous and asked Lakespeare to write a love letter to a girl he liked on William’s behalf. Lakespeare did so and Shakespeare formed a relationship with his future wife Anne Hathaway. The marriage angered Lakespeare because he was in love with Anne Hathaway. This started the rocky relationship the two had with each other.
Shakespeare told Lakespeare that the letter was supposed to be given to Catherine Budor. Catherine was the least attractive girl in the school, and the only girl Lakespeare wasn’t involved with. This meant that he didn’t mind writing a letter for Shakespeare to give to Catherine, but he felt a letter to Anne was off limits. He felt those lines in the poem will melt any woman’s heart and it was the sole reason Ann chose to marry Shakespeare. The lines read:
I’ll follow you and make heaven out of hell,
And I’ll die in your hand, which I loved so well.
Lakespeare was furious after hearing that the two got married. With a sword in hand, Lakespeare charged into Shakespeare’s house late one night. Shakespeare was lying in his bed sleep next to Anne. When Lakespeare saw this he dropped the sword to the ground and began to cry. His cry was so loud that it woke Shakespeare up from his sleep. Watching his one time best friend cry made him feel very guilty. In his guilt, he made a deal with Lakespeare that he would let him have Anne as his wife if he wrote a bunch of poems and playwright and Shakespeare will take the credit. Lakespeare was so in love with Anne that he agreed to the deal. The conniving Shakespeare, at the last moment altered the deal and insisted that Lakespeare would only get to be with Anne once the year 1617 arrived. The love stricken and naïve Lakespeare agreed to this deal. By the time 1617 arrived, Shakespeare was dead and Anne was uninformed of the deal that was made. When Lakespeare approached Anne, she wanted no parts of him. Lakespeare was devastated and committed suicide.

1 comment:

  1. Clever title. I liked this story idea and found it funny. I think there is a lot of potential with this story because it has a twisted story line of a story that many of us know. It brings someone familiar into a story, so that many readers can relate to it. Some things you could tackle to help enhance this story could be…

    -listing some names of poetry and subjects of random sonnets that don’t actually exist.

    -Writing a Shakespearean poem that isn’t existent into the story line in regards to their relationship. The poem could be in regard to their good times and good friendship or after the friendship went down hill. It would give it a realistic feel but also continue the comedic genre. Of course, I would give you extreme props if you could achieve to write a Shakespearean sonnet successfully, because I can’t.

    -I like the year throwing (1617), perhaps you could do that a bit more often. Give more realistic throws in there such as parents’ names, locations, etc. You could throw such information with foot notes or within the story.

    -Separate the story into paragraphs, to help create divisions. Personally, I feel that the way one layouts a piece of writing helps one read the piece differently. Because I didn’t see any paragraph separations, I read it subconsciously like a journal entry.

    Questions:
    Why did you use Anne Hataway? That just seemed random to me… But then again, I love her, and can relate to her again so maybe it’s still following that same familiarity categorization.

    “The legendary William Shakespeare credits Gilliam Lakespeare’s works.” Does he actually credit Gilliam, or is it more that he should credit but doesn’t because he steals his work?

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