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This story is in no way original, but that's not the point. What the play sets out to accomplish is not only to weave together several famous stories, but also to reinvigorate them, bring new life to them, and hopefully inspire people to go back and read the source material. This play is based on several Shakespeare plays, on some works by Chaucer, Milton, Virgil, and on works by a few other great writers. It is an attempt to do to Shakespeare what Shakespeare so famously did to other authors, which is, to take their stories and give his own interpretation of them. The basic plot of this play has directly been taken from such works as Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, and The Aeneid, to name a few (in total, about twenty works are treated here at various times). The plot lines have been woven together in a new way to create a kind of collage out of the source material. Each scene revolves around a central quote to which the scene is alluding, but the way in which the quote is interpreted, and the way in which the characters respond is original. If this work fails in its ambitious goal to bring all these stories together, hopefully it will succeed in restoring interest in the classic works that are treated. While this story may not live up to the stories that it depicts, it is only told in the hopes that one may read this story, and then go back and read all the stories to which the author alludes. If in the end this project ultimately fails, it will fail only insofar as these works are no longer read, no longer enjoyed. To read them is the ultimate aim; that is the ultimate goal.

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Robert Kilcrease once worked as a farmhand on a small farm for a woman named Buttercup, whom he loved dearly. After letting his love be known, he set sail for the new world to make his fortune, but was unfortunately attacked by the Dread Pirate Roberts, who supposedly killed Robert Kilcrease, much to the dismay of Buttercup. Unbeknownst to her, he actually served as an understudy to the Dread Pirate Roberts, took on the name of the Dread Pirate Roberts, and when Buttercup was taken hostage by some thieves in a conspiracy designed to implicate a warring nation in her murder plot, Robert Kilcrease came to her rescue, and defeated first one thief with his swordsmanship, then another thief he bested with strength, and finally another thief he outsmarted. All was not rosy, as Buttercup was engaged to another man at this time, and her fiance, a prince, had contracted the thieves to murder her so he could start a war, and he sent Robert Kilcrease to the Pit of Despair and tortured him, finally killing him. However, two of the thieves that he bested rescued him, brought him back to life, and helped Robert Kilcrease assault the castle in which Buttercup was being held, so he could save Buttercup from her fiance, which he did, and they lived happily ever after. He then went on to write Parasites.

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