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This chapter details an approach to engaging students with William Shakespeare’s plays without print. The aim is to estrange them from a medium so naturalized to their understanding of Shakespeare as to have disappeared. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bottom calls the “scrip” of Pyramus and Thisbe a “good piece of work", and indeed the script is but one “piece” of the final, entire “work.” Bottom later longs to turn the entire play into a ballad, Philostrate has a “list” of entertainments including Pyramus and Thisbe, and so on and so forth. The players’ individual scripts—their dialogue—will work in concert with other written materials—property lists, backstage plots, songs, prologues, epilogues, letters, the entire playbook—within a system of distributed literacy designed to enable oral performance by an ensemble of craftsmen, none of whom individually possesses the entire written “work.”