The Tragedy of Orenthal, Prince of Brentwood - Monk, Michael W.
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Not since Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Lear has there been a tragic hero so worthy of playwright and pen. Enter Orenthal James Simpson, O.J. to fan and foe alike, blessed with good looks and charisma, cursed with capacious jealousy and rapacious rage. His victims-ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman-suffer gruesome deaths that go unavenged, while the audience watches in rapt disbelief. Now, on the 20th anniversary of the murders, playwright Michael Monk, in The Tragedy of Orenthal, tells the O.J. Simpson tale as it might have occurred and as it was meant to be told-in iambic pentameter blank verse, in five acts, with stage direction and a prologue; that is, in the manner of Shakespearean tragedy, with lively, engaging style punctuated with humor. The stalking of Nicole, the murders at Bundy, the police investigation, the slow-speed televised Bronco chase, the trials . . . as Simpson defense lawyer Barry Scheck proclaims, "Double, double, blood may bubble: Proving DNA is trouble."
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Michael W. Monk was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, and is a 1967 graduate of Grand Island Senior High School, the school to which he returned in 2015, metaphorically speaking, to contribute a bimonthly column for the alumni newsletter, collected here in A Distant Mirror Anthology. In 1971 Monk received his BA from Harvard College with a degree in English literature with honors. After graduating in 1974 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he practiced labor and employment law in Los Angeles for more than forty-six years. From 1990 to 1994, Monk was a minority owner of the San Diego Padres baseball team. In 2014, Monk's play, The Tragedy of Orenthal, Prince of Brentwood, published by Small Batch Books, was named as a finalist in fiction for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and won an Outstanding Book of the Year award by the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Now mostly retired, Monk and his wife, Janet Bogle, reside a majority of the year at Lake Okoboji, Iowa.