By heck but this was a tough one! Tougher even than Hector, Achilles and Ajax all mixed together! The story doesn't go anywhere, the titular characters barely register and there are too many Heroes all trying to out soliloquise each other.
This is another of the Bard's works which might benefit for being staged in a school playground as the kings and heroes act more like kids; boasting one minute, then having a quick fight before making up and finally going off in a sulk!
This is another of the Bard's works which might benefit for being staged in a school playground as the kings and heroes act more like kids; boasting one minute, then having a quick fight before making up and finally going off in a sulk!
In short it's no wonder I knew nothing about the play prior to reading it and in some ways I wish I still knew nothing.
And Finally - The play starts in the middle of the Trojan War and finishes... in the
middle of the Trojan War. The Iliad does the same thing
but in this Scrap of the Scribes I reckon it's Billy-Boy who's bitten
off more than he could chew and is likely to end up being dragged,
lifeless behind Homer's horse. (but then that's what you get for
cribbing off Chaucer!)...
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