Original Virtual Air Date:
3rd February, 2008
Description:
When Woody and Jordan investigate a series of deaths at
a Renaissance Fayre, there’s more happens on stage than
a Shakespearean sword fights. Bug and Lily investigate
a tragic case of misunderstanding and death in a teenage
romance.
Random Facts:
Shakespeare’s Kates appear across a range of plays:
Measure for Measure, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry 1V
Parts I and II, Henry V and The Taming of the Shrew,
the latter two being the most significant in this
episode. Katherine, the shrew, is a feisty and clever
woman battling the conflict between independence and
relationship; Katherine, Princess of the French Royal
household is sought in marriage by the soldier king,
Henry V of England. So both Jordan and Kate are
presented as Shakespearean “Kates” in this episode.
Quotations from these two plays abound.
There’s also reference to the curse of Macbeth.
No-one must ever use the name of the play inside the
theatre: it is bound to bring down terrible consequences
on the production. Remedies included
turning three times, spitting over one's left shoulder,
swearing, or reciting a line from another of
Shakespeare’s plays, often “Angels and ministers of
grace defend us” from Hamlet. It can also be
remedied by the person’s being invited back into the
theatre: Woody is ‘invited’ to play the role of Young
Siward. Suggested origins of the curse are numerous,
one being that in the original procuction a real dagger
was supposedly substituted for a prop, with murderous
consequences.
There are also some Jerry O’Connell references: he was
the ‘chubby kid in Stand By Me and the
captain of his fencing team at the New York University.
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