Great to see you going into such detail, Sir.B! At last, a fellow Thespian! Your ideas are indeed taking shape, but have not yet got the gist of the matter that is required. The second line of that verse may serve to instruct you further.

You are certainly in that I have a network of very deep references woven into the fabric of this riddle, and it is very interesting to me to see how you go about unravelling them!