2000x/Beyond 2000: Anthony & Cleopatra All For Love parts 1 & 2 (by John Dryden)

[james_davis_nicoll]

Anthony & Cleopatra All For Love parts 1
Anthony & Cleopatra All For Love parts 2

I think this is an abridged version of Shakespeare's play (which I am not familiar with) which has been science-fictionized by John Dryden. Skiffenizing seems to have been accomplished by replacing "Rome" with "Terra" and "Egypt" with "Venus" and similar replacements.

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[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

I am unfamiliar with the term "skiffenizing". The Urban Dictionary defines 'skiffen' as: The best person in the world. He usually has a lot of friends that uncontrollably shout out his name because of how amazing he is. He has been referred to as a god and many people adore him. He is always right, and the laws of nature will bend to his will to prove he is right.

This does not enlighten me.
:(

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I made it up. To make something not SF into SF.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Etymology is probably related to Harlan Ellison's disdain for the term "sci-fi", which he would derisively pronounce as "skiffy".

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

"JAMES NICOLL!"

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

I am now enlightened and will spread this new term far and wide...
:)

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

It's not an SF redecoration of John Dryden's play All For Love? (Change the countries to planets, call it a day.)

According to the Wikipedia page, it was written in the late 1670s, and is Dryden's best-known play.

If that Dryden, I think it unlikely he did the skiffenizing, but he's not around to sue, anyway.

Plain text available at Gutenberg.

Born the day after Brian's birthday, but several hundred years earlier.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Oh, maybe it is. I said I didn't know the Shakespeare; apparently my ignorance was more sweeping than I thought.

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I meant to put the Gutenberg link in:

John Dryden's All For Love, an acknowledged retelling of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.