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[writemarcus]

Marcus Scott is a dramatist and journalist. Notable plays include Tumbleweed (2025 Orlando Shakes PlayFest), Sibling Rivalries, and There Goes the Neighborhood, which have collectively earned finalist recognition from the O’Neill NPC, Princess Grace Awards, Blue Ink Award, SDNPF and BAPF. Musical credits include Cherry Bomb and a commissioned adaptation of Beethoven’s Fidelio for Heartbeat Opera (The Met Museum; NY Times Critic’s Pick). Recent honors include the Robert Chelsey/Victor Bumbalo Award, a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency, and finalist status for the 2025 Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Award, the Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship, and the Many Voices Fellowship. MFA: NYU Tisch.  

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No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change: Thy pyramids built up with newer might To me are nothing novel, nothing strange; They are but dressings of a former sight.

Sonnet 123 at Historic Stone Street, Manhattan

Where we had our last ShakesBEER pub crawl!

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Your love and pity doth the impression fill, Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow; For what care I who calls me well or ill, So you o’er-green my bad, my good allow?

Sonnet 112 at the Andrew Haswell Green Memorial Bench, Central Park

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Wanna see a Hamlet that transcends language, gender, and race?

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Sonnet 77

Analysis

In Sonnet 77, the poet encourages his beloved to preserve his thoughts in writing, as they watch themselves age.

Here, Shakespeare warns his lover that the mirror will show how their beauty is wearing away, the clock how their precious minutes are disappearing; the pages of this blank notebook will record their thoughts; and they may learn the following things from those thoughts: The wrinkles in the mirror will remind them of open graves. By the hands of your clock, they will learn how time keeps stealing away to eternity. By writing reminders on these blank pages, when they encounter those thoughts again, the children of your brain, they’ll be grown up, nourished by continued reflection. They’ll be like a new acquaintance. Doing these things often will fill the tome with memories

Will’s Wordplay

The poem has been taken as referring to the gift of a blank-book or book of tablets, perhaps to the beloved, although some have suggested a more distant friendship than that in the other sonnets. It is also hypothesized that the poem relates specifically to the Rival Poet: knowing that he has lost favor, Shakespeare makes a present of this blank book to the beloved, who will now have to fill it himself, since Shakespeare has fallen silent.

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ShakesBEER: Historic Stone Street

Drink! Be merry! Watch performances!

Our final crawl of 2015

November 14

3:00-6:00PM

The fun starts with check-in at 2:30

at

THE DUBLINER

45 Stone St New York, NY 10005

Othello Much Ado About Nothing A Midsummer Night's Dream Twelfth Night

STARRING Vince Gatton, Liz Kimball, Adam Donshik, Nathaniel Claridad Zane Johnston, Kim Krane, and Christopher Michael McFarland

DIRECTED BY Brendan Averett, Carey Van Driest, Kevin Brewer, and Vince Gatton

PRODUCED BY Carey Van Driest and Kim Krane

Get tickets at the door or buy them at 

http://www.shakespeareexchange.org/content/shakesbeer-2015

Belly Up to the Bard!

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This film is the perfect confluence of modern NYC, Shakespeare, and the rhythm of America’s own London.

But wherefore do not you a mightier way Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time? And fortify your self in your decay With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?

Sonnet 16 at the Bowery Graffiti Wall

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The Sonnet Project Fundraiser

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

-Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare

The New York Shakespeare Exchange just launched their fundraising campaign for 2016. The season is going to be fantastic! They are producing Hamlet and a new adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s poems called The Rape of Lucrece. And, The Sonnet Project is kicking ass all over the world and rolling out new educational programs soon. NYSX is growing fast and on top of everything else, next year will be their first season of two full shows. It’s all very exciting. Take a look at their fundraising website and see all the tickets they offer as donation rewards. it’s a great time to get involved with one of the hottest young companies in NYC. Thanks!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1384441698/shakespeare-without-borders?ref=discovery