Tell William
Lj / ae Shakespeare wasn’t a bad author As authors go. He could turn on an act, or write a play Which by modern standards seems rather slow. He was a master of the long and drawn out, Which children naturally abhor; And is rated by honest schoolboys As an A-1 bore. OOR Bill, he filled the stage with such an unholy mix-up Of sententious people and _ unlikely situations, That it wasn’t until the Comintern had been dissolved That anyone bothered to investigate His Political Aftiliations. But oh, Hell! Sage at did they got in some fine ki At the old boy’s Politics; And after all you can’t wonder For his Kings and Dukes do rather steal the thunder, And you can’t be surprised to find that Comrades wince When leading roles are given to a mere Prince, F eas sure that weak and vacillating fellow Hamlet Would seem more real, and be more easy to remember, (Character and all thrown in) if his triend, Horatius, could reveal That he had been a Party Member. And as for Lear, the old buffer, His insanity would have been a lot more convincing It he had been an honest working man instead of just a King. I ies above all, wouldn’t we have been better If only all these -nincompoops of hts would utter A language less like Shakespeare than the gutter? Then if he’d change his palace for a hovel. He’d be as cheap and nasty As an Average Novel, -Anton Vogt
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 208, 18 June 1943, Page 7
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252Tell William New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 208, 18 June 1943, Page 7
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