The cheeriest news of all...
Monday, November 6th, 2006 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddyman...someone has found a new McGonagall!
It's true and therefore a day to rejoice. According to this article in the Times Online, scholars have unearthed a previously unpublished play by William Topaz McGonagall, officially the world's worst poet. The play, entitled Jack o’ the Cudgel (or The Hero of a Hundred Fights) is apparently based upon his poem of the same name.
That's going straight on my Amazon wish list!
It's true and therefore a day to rejoice. According to this article in the Times Online, scholars have unearthed a previously unpublished play by William Topaz McGonagall, officially the world's worst poet. The play, entitled Jack o’ the Cudgel (or The Hero of a Hundred Fights) is apparently based upon his poem of the same name.
Chris Hunt, editor of a new collection of McGonagall's works to be published next month, said that Jack o' the Cudgel was inspired by Shakespeare's Henry IV plays. He said that McGonagall himself, who was an enthusiastic, if dreadful actor, had probably intended to play the title role. He said: "It's funny, but not in the way McGonagall intended, and the best I can say is that it adds to the gaiety of nations."
That's going straight on my Amazon wish list!