shakespeare fan fic

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The Bard himself was no stranger to borrowing, but what he inspired in others was a desire to continue his stories with his characters, using his voice as nearly as possible. Here's a lovely example, "Falstaff's Wedding," by Mr. Kenrick, taking the great sinner from where he was unceremoniously kicked to the curb by an faithless friend and carrying on in the nearest he could manage to the voice of Shakespeare.

You can read it on the screen here, and turn the pages of a facsimile edition (from the library at Rice University, where I worked for a while) as you go, or you can download it. If I were you, I shouldn't even bother with any attempts to turn the words into plain text, as archive.org has shown themselves to be fairly awful — and not in a good way — in that regard.

Speaking of awful, LJ has been doing stupid things to links lately, so here's the above link again, written out plainly —
http://www20.us.archive.org/stream/falstaffswedding00kenr#page/n7/mode/2up
— for you to copy and paste into a new browser window, if you wish.

Let me know what you think, if you develop an opinion. I haven't read very far into the play yet.
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follow up

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I wrote to someone at the Smithsonian about the lesson plan with the original 1903 Virginian-Pilot account of the Wright Brothers' flight, and told them about the 2003 correction. A few days later, I heard back. They will be revamping some of the plans, and like the idea of incorporating the corrections as a sidelight.

Cool!
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