Possible Clues:

• Play the fool ultimately in middle of monologue
• Bardic off-Broadway role for David Oyelowo
• Old Testament greeting in Shakespeare play
• Good books can be a conversation starter or a tragedy
• Shakespeare role
• Books first half of musical play
• Board game named after a Shakespeare play
• More or less shut up upon greeting jealous husband
• Play seen by Pepys
• The lines at the heart of old, old tragedy