SYNOPSIS: Needing some help on writing a story for his English class, Jules decides to go back to the year 1597 to consult the famouse playwrite, William Shakespeare. Verne accompanies him there. When they arrive there, Shakespeare is in the middle of doing his latest play Romeo and Juliet, a play that Marty and Jennifer were performing in 1987. The two boys give the Bard a break by agreeing to accompany them back to their own abode and help them write something. After Shakespeare has a few drinks, he is helped into the DeLorean, and is taken back to the future. Coming too, Shakespeare discovers himself in a strange place but the boys who he saw are there. He write Jules' story which is to be turned in the next day. Shakespeare spends the night in 1987 without Doc and Clara knowing it and the next day Jules takes his story to school with him. The teacher is astonished about the strange diction that Jules uses and talks to Clara about it. Meanwhile, the two boys return home only to discover that Shakespeare has dissappeared. Jules and Verne start looking for him. Meanwhile, Shakespeare has entered a playhouse where Romeo and Juliet is being performed. The Bard encounter Marty and Jennifer, both of whom are in the title role. Shakespeare is shocked that Jennifer is a girl. He also gets arrested for assaulting her. When the two boys hear about this, they realize that they have no choice now but to tell their parents about what has happened in order to get Shakespeare out of jail
BACKGROUND: The
English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare (was the author of
the most widely admired and influential body of literature by any
individual in the history of Western civilization. His work
comprises 36 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 narrative poems. Of his
plays, Hamlet was one the most powerful. Romeo and
Juliet was Shakespeare's first romantic tragedies. Knowledge
of Shakespeare is derived from two sources: his works and those
remains of legal and church records and contemporary allusions
through which scholars can trace the external facts of his life.
If you are wondering why Shakespeare was shocked about seeing Jennifer-a female-onstage acting out a role, that's because in Shakespeare's time they found it improper for a woman to perform onstage. Woman's roles were performed by boys or young men.
My interest in Shakespeare started back in 1970 when I saw the play Hamlet on television. After that, I started reading up on him and his plays and for the next three years, I was hooked on him.
