The Shakespearean Plagiarist
Another Plagiaristic Poem Utilising The First Acts Of Plays By William Shakespeare And A Take On The Vocal "Dancing with Distraction" Acrostic Challenge Featuring More Stolen Literature
The Prompt
Write an acrostic using the word distraction.
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This is an attempt to fuse the Vocal Acrostic Challenge with the titles of the Acts in the Plays of William Shakespeare.
Also check out the videos by the Reduced Shakespeare Company, the "Othello Rap" is very funny.
See if you can spot the pays where the titles came from (one I had to remove a leading "The" but the rest are all the names of Acts)
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Duke Orsino's Palace Starts Us On Our Way
Island, Before Prospero's Cell We Now Stand
Shepherd's Cottage, A Very Nice Place To Stay
Troy. Before Priam's Palace, Achilles Lands
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Rousillon. The Count's Palace, We Are In France
A Hall In Duke Solinus's Palace, Grand
Chorus As Time Speaks, This Is A Song And Dance
Tarsus, An Open Place Near The Shore, On Sand
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Inverness. Macbeth's Castle, The Future King
Orchard Of Oliver's House, With Fruit And Things
Near Misenum, Where We End Our Travelling
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I wanted to title this something different, but worried that my chosen title might cause problems entering the United States in the future so this is the new title. It's the greatest title. No one has ever written a title better than this. (All titles unrelated to content).
Let me be honest. I am finding this difficult. Now, I like a challenge, a stretch, a bit of an obstacle course. “Write about the decline of the British Empire in the form of a narrative poem in which your protagonist is an artichoke” I read, and flex my fingers. “Write a haiku to evoke the sensation of sibilance using only the first half of the alphabet.” “Well”, I think to myself, “this should be fun.” But “write about a system that isn’t working”? A system that isn’t working? Now? In 2026? ONE system? My favourite system that isn’t working? The sexiest system that isn’t working? The one giving me the most angst day to day? The one giving me the most existential dread? I am, as I say, finding this difficult. I will own that I have contemplated writing a thousand words on why the steady “all on” setting on my fairy lights is the EIGHTH of seven options which must be sequentially activated to get there, because that is a system that some fool came up with and it definitely doesn’t work, and now who is paying the price, eh? But how can I write about my fairy lights when…. When…. When….
By Hannah Moore6 days ago in Humans
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Happy 371st birthday to William Shakespeare! 🪶 I loved this, Mike.
Whoaaaa you did a Acrostic and Plagiarist combo! This blew my mind!
Ooh, this is really clever. Had to work at remembering which plays were referred to. Great job.
Great Article and Acrostic❤️💯😉🎯 I Like That you chose SHAKESPEARE❗
NICE WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!