Aesop's Crow : Cassio

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    Written during rehearsal of Othello in Sheehy Theater . About the play and rehearsal from the actors point of view . I played Cassio . I got the idea for the title from and old insult written about Shakespeare from one of his rival playwrights , Robert Greene --- "There is an upstart Crow, beautiful in our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you, and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in the country." and its allusion to Aesop's Crow ( how strutted in borrowed plumage as and actor struts in fine words not his own )

    Aesop's Crow : Cassio

     Condemd , seald away
    Riped from site
    Crammed in a rusty old grotto
    We sit , silent , and wait in the dark
    Forgotten by this strif befor your eyes
    Till we slip speaking into the light
    No one says a word
    Though someone did just fart
    Quitly listening to the bickering lovers just beond this wall
    Then leave my cell
    To talk with certin friends
    Though I know one to be a villain
    A demi-devil , most fowl
    And his sick fool
    With knife in hand
    Plot my murder
    Fodder for this green eyed monster


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    Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.

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