00:23Peabody here, and for you poetry lovers, today's excursion into yesteryear will be a highly informative one.
00:29Are we going to visit Ogden Nash, Mr. Peabody?
00:31No, Sherman. The poetic personality we will tete-a-tete with is none other than William Shakespeare.
00:36We set the Wayback Machine for Warwickshire, England in the year 1611,
00:40and in its customary and genius manner, the Wayback deposited us before a small neighborhood theater, the Stratford-on-Avon.
00:46Now playing a new play by Will Shakespeare, Romeo and Zelda. Romeo and Zelda?
00:51Must be a misprint, but it wasn't, for inside the play was in rehearsal and...
00:56Zelda, where far art thou, Zelda?
00:59Instead of appearing on the balcony, Juliet, or rather Zelda, came marching out of the wings, carrying a large flower
01:04pot.
01:05She left the stage and went directly to a familiar figure who was sitting all alone in the front row.
01:09That must be William Shakespeare, Mr. Peabody. And look, she's going to present him with a flower.
01:13She presented him with a flower, all right.
01:16Hot and all.
01:18That'll teach you to steal my play.
01:20It's a man wearing a disguise.
01:22Francis Bacon, if I'm not mistaken, and I never am.
01:25Bacon, you'll fry for this. Usher's throw this pretender out.
01:30You haven't seen the last of me, Shakespeare? I'll be back.
01:33Are you all right, Mr. Shakespeare?
01:35Quite, my lad. But this comes at a most inopportune time.
01:38The play opens tonight.
01:40By the by, would you care to witness the initial performance?
01:43It would be an honor, sir. However, there's just one thing.
01:46Oh?
01:46Don't you think Juliet would sound better than Zelda?
01:49Juliet, Juliet, Juliet.
01:50I'll spotkin, sir. I like it. Juliet, it shall be.
01:54So that evening saw the auspicious debut of a new play entitled Sam and Juliet.
01:58Sam?
01:59We'll work on him, Sherman.
02:01The play progressed smoothly and the audience was very enthusiastic.
02:05All three of them.
02:06But during the balcony scene, things went suddenly awry.
02:08Juliet, wherefore art thou Juliet?
02:11Poor Sam never found out because without a warning,
02:13the ladder he was on unexpectedly gave way and...
02:17The play is ruined, irretrievably and hopelessly ruined.
02:21Why do you say that, Mr. Shakespeare?
02:23Because there isn't another actor who knows Sam's role.
02:25I do.
02:26A quick change of clothing, a new ladder, me, and the play resumed.
02:30Oh, hark, what hollow light burneth in yonder patio.
02:33He gad the lads in ad liber.
02:36Verily I shall ascendeth yon balcony and meet my beloved.
02:39Easy with your big toe, Sherman.
02:41You're crushing my collarbone.
02:42Zelda, I mean Juliet.
02:44Thou art wherefore, Juliet.
02:46You can well imagine Sherman's dismay when instead of a lovely young maiden,
02:50a lovely young lion appeared.
02:53In one prodigious thing, a huge cat left the balcony and proceeded to empty the theater.
03:00He then turned on us.
03:02Run for your lives.
03:03The performance is canceled.
03:04Quick, Mr. Peabody.
03:05No need to panic.
03:06We'll simply ring the curtain down.
03:10Oh, the tragedy of it all that this should happen to me
03:13if I ever found the rogue who owned that beast.
03:16That beast is mine.
03:19Bacon.
03:19With eggs.
03:21That did it.
03:22That terraced the sheet.
03:24We shall settle our grievances with a duel.
03:26Fountain pens at 40 paces.
03:29Fountain pens my eye tooth.
03:31We shall settle it with pistols.
03:33Mr. Shakespeare, you can't fight a duel.
03:35I must.
03:36Mr. Peabody, you will act as my second.
03:39And you, young man, you shall be my third.
03:41At dawn the following day, the participants met on a misty common.
03:45You will each take ten paces, turn, and fire.
03:48Go.
03:48Bacon and Shakespeare set off.
03:50But it was so misty that by the tenth step they were no longer visible.
03:53You've got to stop them, Mr. Peabody.
03:55They're liable to get hurt.
03:56Don't worry, Sherman.
03:57I have a plan.
03:58Be dashed out into the mist to where a pile of bricks and a wheelbarrow of cement stood.
04:02What's this doing here?
04:03I put it here during the night.
04:05Now, the world record for erecting a brick wall is three seconds.
04:07I shall eclipse that.
04:09But Mr. Shakespeare and Mr. Bacon are going to fire.
04:11They did.
04:13I completed the wall in nine-tenths of a second.
04:16Just in time to stop the bullets.
04:19Well, that should settle Bacon's hash.
04:22Yes, and that should take care of Shakespeare Bacon.
04:30The good police of Avon arrived at that moment and Carter the Duelist off to jail.
04:35Boy, am I glad that's over.
04:37Yes, a few days in the quiet confines of a cell should cool them off.
04:40Well, there's one thing that puzzles me, Mr. Peabody.
04:43How did William Shakespeare get the name Bard of Avon?
04:46A misnomer, Sherman.
04:47William Shakespeare was not called the Bard of Avon.
04:49He was Bard in Avon.
04:52Yes!
04:53Yes!
04:54Yes!
04:55Yes!
04:56Yes!
04:57Yes!
04:59Yes!
05:00Thank you!
05:01My kraim!
05:01No!
05:02I won!
05:02Yes!
05:02It's so funny.
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