If you could for a moment,

forget Shakespeare and Wilde

wrote in British.

Just imagine!

Hamlet with a Danish accent!

The Grave Digger

with a Copenhagen slum dwellers lilt!

Horatio with a Sorbonne slur!

And all of Earnests Important circle

sounding like Plantation Confederates

two months before Sumpter?

How would that change

what we think of those folks

without Oliviea’s rhythums

and Burton’s chokes?

Toby Belch, a Russian serf!

Iago a Mandrin from China!

Othello, “Straight out ‘a Compton.

MacBeth as a Brahmin from Boston.

His Lady a stripper from Bonn.

So what if those changes would

cancel some culture!

Would groundlings

still be willing

to pay tupense for seats?

“Ese es la pregunta!