Williams Shakespeare, “King Charles III,” Act 1 Scene 1.

Williams Shakespeare, “King Charles III,” Act 1 Scene 1.

KING CHARLES:

The light is awful! Ha! who comes here? Are my eyes seeing double? What is this strange object in our bedroom? Camilla, do you see what I see? Are you for real? Speak, you apparition, trying to scare a new monarch!

EGUNGUN:

Ayam Egungun, the Ancestral Spirit of those your ancestors named Southwest Nigerians.

KING CHARLES:

Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil?