fiftysevenacademics:

Fellow Shakespeeps! I have a problem. Ever since @shredsandpatches posted this comment that Ben Johnson said about our boy Billy:

Hee was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and
free nature : had an excellent Phantsie ; brave notions, and gentle
expressions : wherein hee flow’d with that facility, that sometime it was
necessary he should be stop’d : Sufflaminandus erat ; as
Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his owne power ;
would the rule of it had beene so too. Many times hee fell into those
things, could not escape laughter :

I have had an urgent need to see fan art or fic where Shakespeare is this hilarious “class clown”, “life of the party” kind of guy who can’t stop himself until his friends put a bag over his head or something silly.

Please!

Headcannon that Johnson set up a pun jar to collect fines from Shakespeare, ACCEPTED.