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William Shakespeare is suffering from writer’s block. He is trying to write what will later become Sonnet 18, but he can’t even get past the first line. His friend and fellow writer Christopher Marlowe comes up to him and asks how he’s doing. Will describes his frustration and inability to write anything, and Marlowe helps him begin his sonnet. Marlowe leaves and Will gets stuck on the second line.
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Start: Will: Shall I compare the. The...Shall I compare...thee? Shall I compare thee!...to a...to a…? Shall I compare thee to a...sum...a sum...a something, something...Damn it.
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End: Marlowe: ‘A summer’s day’. Start with something lovely, temperate and thoroughly trite. Gives you somewhere to go.
Will: A summer’s day?! (he writes reluctantly) Shall I compare thee...to a...summer’s day? Mmm? Thou art more...something something something…
Hall, Lee, Shakespeare in Love, Faber and Faber, 2014, pp. 3-4.
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