A Mary-Sue plot-bunny I often daydream, but would never, ever actually write:

A Meddling Monk type person* from the future decides to do a little experiment, and pulls Shakespeare from his own time into the late Late 20th/Early 21st Century to see what would happen with the ripples -- yet somehow working it so that Shakespeare's own, real, timeline is not disrupted. -- Maybe by reconstructing his consciousness-cum-body via their signatures left behind in the Space-Time matrix?

But -- and this is the key thing -- not so that the world can be graced, once again, by the Genius of Shakespeare ('cause we already have that, thank you very much), but so that he can be the instantly-recognized bellwether to the people following in his wake -- people that only he would recognize: Anne, his children, Susanna(h?), Judith, Hamnet...

So that they could have the chance to show what their Genii were.

And my role in this drama? To witness this, and to have quiet, long conversations with Susanna and Anne about ...stuff... and how the world has changed, and how it hasn't



*or maybe it's just Fate, or random anomaly, or even the Gods of the Arts, or what-have you.