I never thought that I would meet my equal, but I concede I have been bested by the best.Shakespeare, Something Rotten!

William Shakespeare, played by Corey Knighton, is the ultimate rock star of the Renaissance… and beginning to feel the pressure of it all. Though outwardly confident, Shakespeare is gradually losing his cool, trying to maintain his success by copying work from others.

Shakespeare claims it’s “hard to be the bard, and he might just be right. “Bard” means poet, and during the period, bards were poets who made a career from traveling and telling stories. Through his cannon of work, Shakespeare became known as “The Bard of Avon.”

Corey Knighton was last seen as Jack Kelly in Newsies at Hickory Theatre. We had the pleasure of accompanying and “crossing the streams” with him at Hickory Arts for Hickory Theatre’s Kay Awards stream in 2020.

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