Codpieces

'To be or not to be?' may be The Question but it is not the only one. Hamlet Part II for example answers a question about Hamlet that has plagued scholars readers and play-goers for over four hundred years: What happened next? Prince Lear tackles yet another conundrum: What happened just before the start of King Lear setting in motion the improbable events of Act I scene 1? And in Fatal Loins the question answered by the play is directly posed in the prologue: 'If Juliet and Romeo survive / Will their eternal passion stay alive?'<br/><br/>I am no stranger to Shakespearean parody... but reading Pontac I am (only slightly) mortified to find that he can write cod Shakespeare much better than Peter Cook Jonathan Miller Dudley Moore or myself - Alan Bennett from the foreword<br/>