Can you change the hard English words to easy ones and make the long sentences a little bit short for me? I have to memorize it and perform it, so I need this monologue to be easier.
Monologue:Shakespeare's relationship with Robert Greene
For seven years, I was disappeared from all records. During this time, people made a lot of controversy about my life. I heard Rowe said that young Shakespeare was quite fond of poaching, and may have had to flee Stratford after an incident with Sir Thomas Lucy, whose lands I allegedly hunted.
There's another rumor about me, it said that I was working as an assistant schoolmaster in Lancashire for a time, though it's not very important.
I was already arrived at London in 1588, and thought I may begin to establish myself as an actor and playwright. As early as 1592, when I was 28 years old. I was publicly recognized, not only as an actor of distinction, but as a dramatist whose work had excited the envy and indignation of my contemporaries and especially of one so accomplished and eminent, so good a scholar and master of the playwright's craft.
Robert Greene was one of these people, much of the irritability and excitable temper often found in the subordinate ranks of the poetical fraternity, and he often talks of himself, his doings and associates in a highly-colored and extravagant way.
But his reference to me is especially deliberate, being in the form of a solemn and last appeal to his friends among the scholarly dramatists to relinquish their connection with the presumptuous and ungrateful stage.
In his Groatsworth of Wit in 1592, he famously refers to me as "an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger\'s heart wrapped in a player\'s hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country".
Because of his bombast, I think I must show my considerable promise. I did a lot of hard work, and then in 1594, I was not only acting and writing for the Lord Chamberlain\'s Men, but was a managing partner in the operation as well.
I'll get you started with the first paragraph.
I had disappeared from the records for seven years. Many rumors flew around, including that I liked to poach. They say I had to leave Stratford because I poached on Sir Thomas Lucy's land.
You'll find it much easier to memorize if you put this monologue into your own words.