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Same Old Play, Same New Audience

"The renaissance of drama arises with each generation of spectators entombed." -- of spectacles clear, an eons-old groundling at the Globe * * * "I do believe this drama we have seen -- you know the one -- which comically yet ends-- as each bit player -- being somewhat lean -- straight silenced is when Death each swift befriends -- and this play we have seen I think as well -- the one which tragically yet ends for all -- as each key player -- tripping into Hell -- straight silenced is on Life's last curtain call -- the same old play the ancient playwrights wrote -- the same old play full borrowed by 'the Bard' -- the same old play the moderns write by rote -- the same old play -- the same old 'avant-garde' -- indeed, as I have oft to old folks said -- 'The play is old till we old farts drop dead.'" * * * a dedication of Respect for Reality -- the sole difference between the happily ever after and the catastrophic ending a revolving helios sonnet shakespearean satire menippean in monologue on the same old human tragedy a comedy of errors deadly january, 2023 -- "drama": been there, done that -- and still paying for it