The Shakespeare Code

 Brothers and Sisters of The Shakespeare Code will recall that….

…..on 3rd July, 2014….

 ….Trixie the Cat….

…issued a DIRE WARNING about…..

…SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE ONSTAGE…

Almost EVERY THEATRE CRITIC IN THE WORLD raved on about how brilliant Shakespeare in Love Onstage was.

A joyous celebration of life….

….yelled the Daily Telegraph from the mountain tops….

Joyous….

… yodelled back the Independent

A love letter to theatre…..

….gurgled the Guardian…..

You will fall in love…

…..wailed the Mail…

WHATSONSTAGE even gave it the award for….

‘BEST NEW PLAY of 2014…’

 …..But Trixie the Cat exposed the show as a…..

PIECE OF OLD PLAGIARISED TOSH!!!

(Only TWO other critics shared Trixie’s insight……

……one of whom had clearly READ Trixie’s piece before he wrote his!

To find out who these BRILLIANT CRITICS were, click:  HERE!  )

As a film, Shakespeare in Love (1998)…..

…..was UNCANNILY SIMILAR to the novel No Bed for Bacon (1941)…..

……by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon.

In No Bed for Bacon an aristocratic woman called Lady Viola falls in love with William Shakespeare, dresses up as a boy and plays in a Shakespeare play….

In Shakespeare in Love (the film)  an aristocratic woman called Lady Viola falls in love with William Shakespeare, dresses up as a boy and plays in a Shakespeare play….

Shakespeare in Love Onstage is also UNCANNILY SIMILAR to Cyrano de Bergerac (1894)….

In Edmond Rostand’s beautiful play, Cyrano….

…..he of the big nose……

…..writes love-letters for his friend Christian…

…..to the beautiful Roxanne…

….with whom he is also in love…..

In Shakespeare in Love Onstage, Christopher Marlowe….

……writes a love-sonnet for his friend William Shakespeare……

……to woo the Lady Viola…..

It is The Code’s fervent belief that Shakespeare was quite capable of writing…..

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day…..

….himself…

And what’s more, he wrote this great poem…..

….TO A YOUNG MAN!!!

……Henry Wriothesley, the Third Earl of Southampton….

(Also, Marlowe himself was gay, but let that pass….)

The good news is that……

….though the critics were fooled by Shakespeare in Love Onstage…..

 …..the theatre going public was not!!!

Shakespeare in Love ‘MUST END’ its run on 18th April this year (2015)….

…..just nine months after it opened!!!

TIME HAS PROVED THE CAT RIGHT AGAIN!!!

To read her penetrating and prophetic original review….

PLEASE CLICK: HERE!!!

Trixie is the Theatre Cat par excellence…..

..and is here to serve Brothers and Sisters of The Shakespeare Code…

…for all of her nine lives…