Saturday, February 25, 2012

Shakespeare saves lives

Okay, I just remembered that one of my favourite TV shows, Warehouse 13, did a Shakespeare episode.  If I can find a clip, I will post it, but here is the basic idea.  In Warehouse 13, agents go searching for artifacts, items that belonged to famous people and took on a sort of essence.  For example, Edgar Allen Poe's pen enticed a boy into writing dark poetry for and about the girl he secretly loved.  In the Shakespeare episode, Season 3 Episode 1, People keep dying, but of impossible causes.  For example, a woman opens a note, and then is suddenly bit by asps that weren't there, and only existed in Egypt.  Just before she died, she quoted Cleopatra's last line, "O Antony - Nay, I will take thee too."  The next man to go is stabbed while he is alone in a room, also after reading a letter.  He has eight stab wounds, and his final words are "Et tu, Brute?"  They eventually go visit a former Warehouse agent, Myka, and figure out that pages from Shakespeare's lost folio are what cause the deaths.  The only way to keep from dying once you touch and look at a page is to say the last lines before the paper burns.  This was a fabulous episode, and goes to show how a knowledge of Shakespeare can save lives. :D

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