Your freshman year at the Academy is over. It was a challenging school year, and now it is time for fun. Because you did so well during your freshman year, your family decided to surprise you with an EF School Tour to Scotland and London. You are having the time of your life with your friends making memories to last a lifetime.
Currently you are visiting the Globe Theater in London. You are grateful to your English teachers for giving you a depth of knowledge about William Shakespeare, the Globe Theater, and Romeo and Juliet. That knowledge is making this trip an unforgettable experience. Your tour director has even arranged a private midnight tour of the Globe. As you enter the Globe, you notice the motto written above the door "Totus mundus agit histrionem" (the whole world is a playhouse). Mentally you add the phrase "and we are merely players". Continuing through the theater until you reach Shakespeare's dressing room you keep repeating the phrase like a mantra. Is it your imagination but did the shadows deepen as you walked into the room? Did the temperature drop dramatically as you continued towards the mirror? A breeze like an icy breath raises the hair on the back of your neck. You get the eerie feeling that you are being watched. The mirror suddenly fogs and words in Shakespearean English start to form upon the mirror. You lean closer to better read the script.
Nobel inhorn man I chargeth thee to findeth mine
own lost manuscript enshielf within the Globe Theat'r.
Twas writ during mine own lost years of 1582-1592.
'Twill proveth without doubteth the auth'rship of mine own plays.
This manuscript wast nev'r publish'd
and shall provideth thee with f'rtune and gl'ry f'r the rest of thy days.
I did secure t with multiple locks in an inset
hath built into the stage slightly above
the reacheth of the ingraft groundlings (scum).
Valorous hunting
and may the muses gaze ov'r thy endeav'rs.
Will
With shock and dismay you realize that you only have 45 minutes until the tour leaves. You scurry out the door and quickly explain the situation to your classmates. You make a beeline for the stage. The closer you get to the stage, the more the cold intensifies. You look up and see that slightly above your head there is a panel that appears to be set upside down. You press the panel and reveal a set of locks.
Currently you are visiting the Globe Theater in London. You are grateful to your English teachers for giving you a depth of knowledge about William Shakespeare, the Globe Theater, and Romeo and Juliet. That knowledge is making this trip an unforgettable experience. Your tour director has even arranged a private midnight tour of the Globe. As you enter the Globe, you notice the motto written above the door "Totus mundus agit histrionem" (the whole world is a playhouse). Mentally you add the phrase "and we are merely players". Continuing through the theater until you reach Shakespeare's dressing room you keep repeating the phrase like a mantra. Is it your imagination but did the shadows deepen as you walked into the room? Did the temperature drop dramatically as you continued towards the mirror? A breeze like an icy breath raises the hair on the back of your neck. You get the eerie feeling that you are being watched. The mirror suddenly fogs and words in Shakespearean English start to form upon the mirror. You lean closer to better read the script.
Nobel inhorn man I chargeth thee to findeth mine
own lost manuscript enshielf within the Globe Theat'r.
Twas writ during mine own lost years of 1582-1592.
'Twill proveth without doubteth the auth'rship of mine own plays.
This manuscript wast nev'r publish'd
and shall provideth thee with f'rtune and gl'ry f'r the rest of thy days.
I did secure t with multiple locks in an inset
hath built into the stage slightly above
the reacheth of the ingraft groundlings (scum).
Valorous hunting
and may the muses gaze ov'r thy endeav'rs.
Will
With shock and dismay you realize that you only have 45 minutes until the tour leaves. You scurry out the door and quickly explain the situation to your classmates. You make a beeline for the stage. The closer you get to the stage, the more the cold intensifies. You look up and see that slightly above your head there is a panel that appears to be set upside down. You press the panel and reveal a set of locks.