Challenge! More fun than ‘guess the weight of the cabbages’
I finished my patchwork-play fic, for still_grrr. It is a musing by Spike on his situation around 1906-07, still with Darla and Drusilla, stuck in Spain and not happy about it.
The fic reads a little oddly, because it’s primarily composed of play titles from the late Elizabethan-Jacobean English dramatists. I was researching, looking for a particular title or plot which sparked something for the prompt, when I realised how fascinating the titles themselves are, and how they could be woven together. (I know people have done this with song titles, so I’m not claiming originality, btw, but it’s the first time I’ve been so moved!).
My challenge to you is this: how many genuine Elizabethan/Jacobean play titles are there in the fic? They may be slightly disguised (added punctuation, altered capitalisation, and the removal or addition of definite/indefinite articles are all okay, and where the titles are quite famous I’ve made occasional tiny tweaks to the words, no more than once or twice). In some cases, the plays themselves are lost, and we only know the titles (plus the plot sometimes, if the playwright got sued over it...). Unless I've missed something obvious, there's no Shakespeare or Marlowe in this, by the way.
Closest guess wins a ficlet of the guesser’s choice (bloody awful poetry is an option but My Poetic Muse can be temperamental unless you want limericks; timestamp fics are welcome, as are more standard character/prompt requests). And since it’s cold and I’m stuck indoors, include your ficlet request when you make your guess, and I might just write it even if you don’t win...
ETA: The challenge is now closed.
The fic reads a little oddly, because it’s primarily composed of play titles from the late Elizabethan-Jacobean English dramatists. I was researching, looking for a particular title or plot which sparked something for the prompt, when I realised how fascinating the titles themselves are, and how they could be woven together. (I know people have done this with song titles, so I’m not claiming originality, btw, but it’s the first time I’ve been so moved!).
My challenge to you is this: how many genuine Elizabethan/Jacobean play titles are there in the fic? They may be slightly disguised (added punctuation, altered capitalisation, and the removal or addition of definite/indefinite articles are all okay, and where the titles are quite famous I’ve made occasional tiny tweaks to the words, no more than once or twice). In some cases, the plays themselves are lost, and we only know the titles (plus the plot sometimes, if the playwright got sued over it...). Unless I've missed something obvious, there's no Shakespeare or Marlowe in this, by the way.
Closest guess wins a ficlet of the guesser’s choice (bloody awful poetry is an option but My Poetic Muse can be temperamental unless you want limericks; timestamp fics are welcome, as are more standard character/prompt requests). And since it’s cold and I’m stuck indoors, include your ficlet request when you make your guess, and I might just write it even if you don’t win...
ETA: The challenge is now closed.