The bard was intent on capturing the tale he had running through his head.
He had characters racing around franticly in a dream, with the scribe scribbling as fast as he could, to keep up. Dictating the activities of the players in this midsummer’s night story certainly sped up the process of getting it all down on paper. The bard had never been a fast writer. This way, there would be a professionally written play sheet that could be sold at the door for those aficionados that he was sure would be willing to pay at least a halfpenny for each hand-written copy.
Unbeknownst to the pair, the final manuscript contained a major error. Looking back, he could well understand how such a mistake was made. It had been in the early hours when the entire script had been finished. Although the writer had found it hard to understand how the scribe didn’t question why the weaver’s head should be replaced by that of Cassius, it all got missed at the time. The fact that the play made no mention of anybody by that name was something that seemed to have slipped past without notice.
It was not until after the first performance that the error became evident to the two men. As it turned out, the ridiculous notion of the artisan receiving an ass’s head didn’t seem to bother the audience at all. In fact, this surprising twist to the tale definitely increased the comedic nature of the piece.
The pennies kept rolling in.
No changes were ever made.
