Shakespire
"And therefore is the glorious planet Sol
In noble eminence enthroned and sphered
Amidst the other; whose medicinable Eye
Corrects the ill-aspects of planets evil,
And posts, like the commandment of a king,
Sans check to good and bad: but when the planets
In evil mixture to disorder wander,
What plagues and what portents! what mutiny!
What raging of the sea! shaking of earth!
Commotion in the winds! frights, changes, horrors,
Divert and crack, rend and deracinate
The unity and married calm of states
Quite from their fixtures!"
cited in The Prophecy of Amon of the Thousand Sons
(Chapter III, Verse 13)[5]
Shakespire (also spelled Shaksspear[4]) was a dramaturge of Old Earth, who lived in the 2nd Millennium.[1][2]
Known Works
By the time of the Great Crusade, complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays had been catalogued by Imperial remembrancers.[1] An unspecified work of Shakespire is cited in a prophecy of Amon of the Thousand Sons.[5][Trivia]
- Amulet, Prince Demark - attributed to Shakespire.[2][3]
Trivia
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- It is implied that Shakespire is a corruption of Shakespeare, with the fact that only three plays are attributed to him an example given to show how much knowledge was lost to humanity in the Age of Strife, or simply by the passage of time. Ironically, Shakepeare himself was known to use many different spellings for his own name, although Shakespire is not known to be amongst those.
- Although not explicitly stated to be one of his surviving works, the quote attributed to him in Vengeful Spirit[5] is from Troilus and Cressida; Act 1, Scene 3.
- Amulet, Prince Demark[2][3] is most likely The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
Sources
- 1: Prospero Burns (Novel), Chapter Two
- 2: The Aegidan Oath (Short Story) - Scythes of the Emperor (Anthology)
- 3: The Unremembered Empire (Novel), Chapter 1
- 4: The Silent King (Novel), Chapter Twenty-Five
- 5: Vengeful Spirit (Novel), pg. 1
