Much Ado About Nuffink
Jordan has recently published her novel 'Crystal'. Not exactly Shakespeare you might suppose. but you would suppose wrong. Shakespeare also possessed a pair of massive jugs (albeit man jugs), but critics eventually learnt to take him seriously.
Much of Shakepeare's first draft scripts also bear an uncanny resemblance to passages found in 'Crystal'.Take for example, this from Romeo and Juliet, which Shakespeare later ponced up a bit in Elizabethan twang:
'She went to the bog next door to the bedroom and she done a shit but it didn't smell or nothing. And he never noticed nothing neither while he was waiting in the bedroom for her on the bed. Or he soon forgot about it, whatever, because she come out right away wearing what she called her dirty knickers.'
The scenes are remarkably similar except Shakespeare, in his final draft chose to locate Juliet's bathroom away from the bedroom, halfway down a corridor.
