Thank you for supporting "Dark Sovereign", Janet

Thank you for supporting Dark Sovereign, Janet (L.M.L.). Now that I am doing less
commercial writing I am promoting the play; while currently writing a new
scene for a member (I think) of this group, the director Nathaniel Merchant: I call it,
appropriately, the Merchant Scene. (NM thought DS to be hostile from a journalistic--and
dramatic--point of view; I have always maintained that DS is supportive of RIIIR). The
Merchant Scene shifts the editorial direction of the play.

With the assistance of a small but talented cast, but absent the Merchant Scene, the U.S.
Society's Annual Meeting last autumn/fall gave Dark Sovereign a one-hour reading in
Chicago. Post-event comments and emails were very supportive. One member in Florida
may stage a few readings in Orlando this autumn.

I have taken most of Dark Sovereign's downloadable PDF materials off my totally
renovated site--RobertFripp.ca--prior to marketing several versions of the play text,
including the uncut original and the Merchant Version, on a DVD with complete glossary
notes and several hundred pages of handwritten text showing how one creates, and
writes, Shakespeare's English, syllable by syllable, showing the appropriate etymological
research. It becomes a teaching tool. There is still lots of DS material on my site, by the
way, but in html, not pdf.

My immediate priority is marketing my eBook "Power of a Woman. Memoirs of a
turbulent life: Eleanor of Aquitaine". You can read excerpts from Power of a Woman (and
early reviews) on my site, if you like. Click "Eleanor" in the Menu: the merchandizing
mechanism should be in place soon.

Just for fun, here are lines from Dark Sovereign's new Merchant Scene. Gloucester,
in Yorkshire, resists a letter from Buckingham et al. requesting his presence in London to
counteract Elizabeth Woodville's machinations:

"I am to Edward shield and general captain
in the office of a wall against the Scot.
But these would have me hole the wall, lay down my arms,
quit vigilance, invite invasion!
Is England so phantastically king'd, that I
– while Scotsmen ravish English wives –
must haste to London, there to save my brother from his queen?"

(On that note, I take my leave, stage right)

Robert