Shakespeare Challenge: happy Bard day

I learnt a lot about the Bard today - Lego make a William Shakespeare character (to build or not to build...) and the New York Public Library gift shop has a William Shakespeare action figure (with removable quill pen and book). For Anniemay there is also a William Shakespeare plastic duck.

It seems then, that the Bard can be whatever we want him to be (or not to be - that is the question). I see him in the Old West, writing screenplays for John Ford:

Willy the Kid (the Bard of Deadwood)

Act 1

If Shakespeare was a cowboy
He’d never ride the Sage
He’d be too busy writing
For the Deadwood stage

“The pen is mightier than the gun”
He’d say to outlaw bands -
“A rose by any other name”
- and they’d put up their hands

interlude

He wrote many plays
In those far off days
I can offer you four
- though I know there are more

A midsummer nights rustling
Two gunmen of Sedona
Jesse James parts I and II
And the Merchant of Oklahoma

Act 2

But the one that was his favourite
I’ll gladly lay a bet
Is a tale of rope-crossed lovers -
Rodeo and Lariat

Now he sits outside the Last Chance
With his trusty pard
Folks tip their hat when they ride by
And shout out - "howdy Bard"