Written: 6/24/05
Word Count: 100 X 5
Rating: K, T, T, K, K+
Plays: Othello, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, All
Notes: Non-challenge drabbles, more abuse of The Bard. I loe my job...
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"... Othello, thinking his wife Desdemona has been unfaithful, smothers her. When he discovers she had never been unfaithful, he kills himself."
Big golden eyes looked up at Hakkai. "What happened to Iago?"
"Well, he was captured, but his punishment isn't written."
Goku frowned. "Then why did he set Othello up?"
"That isn't answered either, although quite a few theories exist on it. The most popular theory says that Iago was in love with Desdemona."
"But he was married!"
"That doesn't stop a lot of people."
Pause. "Hey, Hakkai?"
"Yes Goku?"
"Why is a dock a person?"
Hakkai smiled and sweatdropped.
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" '...he comes before me," Hakkai read aloud from the manuscript.
In the corner, Gojyo snickered lightly.
Hakkai glared at him.
"What?" Goku asked, looking back and forth between the two.
"Gojyo is being annoying," Hakkai replied.
"Oh, come on Hakkai, the man was obsessed!" Gojyo cleared his throat and quoted, " 'Come night, come gentle night, come Romeo, O day and night!' ... Oh, night, night, night, night, night." A wicked grin crossed the half-breed's face and he leered at Hakkai. "Cum, cum, cum, cum, cum."
A faint blush stained Hakkai's cheeks.
Goku looked back and forth, confused.
Gojyo simply shrugged. "Hey, I didn't write it, man"
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The
black leather-bound book flew across the room, slamming against the
thin temple wall before falling to the floor with a thud.
"Monkey!"
Goku crossed his arms and met Sanzo's glare. "That man is sick. I am not reading any more, you can't make me!"
The brunette teacher ran a hand through earth-colored strands. "Why don't you want to read it anymore?"
"He's writing about cooking people into pies and eating them! Even I wouldn't do that!"
Hakkai grinned at Sanzo as Goku ran off. "Shakespeare went through a little demon phase in his really early work."
"Apparently"
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"Shakespeare's Scottish play Macbeth is considered cursed by many theater actors."
"Why?"
Hakkai couldn't help but smile at Goku. The boy really was eager to learn, when given the chance. "The first production of the play had a lot of problems. Actors are very superstitious, they don't even talk about it in the theater unless they're in the play."
"Because it's... cursed?"
Hakkai nodded.
Without warning, Gojyo jumped up behind Goku, yelling 'boggy boggy' and tickling him with the tips of his fingers. Goku shrieked with laughter and fell off the chair, squirming away from him.
"Very scary..."
Hakkai sighed.
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"Hakkai, I've been thinking--"
"Always dangerous. Did it hurt?"
"Shut up, Gojyo! Hakkai, you said that women weren't allowed to be actors, right?"
"That's correct."
"Then how did they do women in the plays?"
"They dressed men in drag you moron."
"You're shitting me!"
"No, he's right. Women were usually played by young men whose voices hadn't dropped yet."
"That's... that's..."
"Strange? To us, yes. But remember, back in that time, women were allowed to do very few things."
"Aw, lookit Hakkai the Feminist."
"Shush, Gojyo."
"So... in a play two men would..."
"Kiss, yes."
"GROSS!"
"My hero."
"Just shush"
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