Words, Words By David Ives

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“Words, Words, Words” by David Ives is a farce play that is about ten minutes long. It has exaggerated comical situations that are very impossible. It is an act of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, that states that “a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare”(Wiki). The three monkey characters are based upon the poets John Milton, Jonathan Swift, and Franz Kafka. T The three monkeys are stuck in a caged experiment where they are trying to write “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare. Each monkey has their own opinion on their entrapment and the purpose of it since they came from Africa “Milton- It sure is a long way

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