Question

I'm gonna perform a monologue and I think this paragraph is hard for the audience to understand, so can you help me to write it into some simple words. Thank you

But his reference to Shakespeare is especially deliberate, being in the form of a solemn and last appeal to his friends among the scholarly dramatists to relinquish their connection with the presumptuous and ungrateful stage.

Answer 1

I would say it as:
His reference to Shakespeare is especially deliberate. In the form of a solemn and last appeal to his friends among the scholarly dramatists, relinquish their connection with the presumptuous and ungrateful state