http://www.shakespeare-parodies.com/hamlet.html I could swear I’ve posted something like this, but I can’t find it in my archives.  As long as we’re on the subject of Shakespeare humor, I thought it’d be funny…   FRANCISCO
                        Ask him about the war!   HORATIO
                        What war?   FRANCISCO
                        Ask him if we should go to war with young
                        Fortinbras!                                                 HORATIO
                        Hey, Ghost, should we go to war with Fortinbras? The Ghost shakes his head “no.” He hold up ten fingers, and then three fingers.   HORATIO
                        No. He says Fortinbras is too many. He thinks we
                        should go to war with thirteen-bras. The Ghost slaps his knee and goes into fits of silent laughter. 

http://stephenheiner.blogspot.com/2008/05/sound-and-fury-signifying-something.html I have a bad habit of finding these more in depth posts in the morning, when I am at work, and don’t have time to properly read them through.  This one is all about Macbeth, the “bloody orgy of death”, and The Tempest, the “utter avoidance of death.”  Somebody read it and tell me what point it’s trying to make :).

Listen.  I love a good pun, and I love a good “walks into a bar” joke, and well, I have mixed feelings about Shakespeare ;).    http://rivergirlie.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/shakespeare-walks-into-a-pub/   I only wish it was a better joke :).   A man is walking down the street when he rounds a corner and crashes straight into William Shakespeare, knocking them both to the ground.  “Can I get a beer?” the man asks. “I beg your pardon?” asks Shakespeare. “Terribly sorry,” says the man, “It seems I’ve gone and walked into a bard by mistake.”

http://bustill.blogspot.com/2008/04/whats-hamlet-to-japan-by-kaori-ashizu.html A fascinating history of how Shakespeare (particularly Hamlet) was introduced to Japan, via the Dutch translation, in the 1850’s, and what happens in translation.

http://www.iagofilms.com/ Not quite sure what this is, exactly, but I saw a bunch of bookmarks fly past my feeds this morning that referenced “Iago Films”, so I knew I had to check it out.  Shakespeare’s words aptly come to life in I Will Avenge You, Iago!, a comedy about great actors and their on and off stage dramas and farces including adultery, burglary, suicide and murder. A great stage performance almost costs Jack Bandrowsky (Larry Pine – Melinda and Melinda, Vanya on 42nd Street, The Royal Tenenbaums) his life when a naive and confused audience member, Marvin (Keith Nobbs – Phonebooth, 25th Hour, It Runs in the Family) goes backstage to kill the villain Iago at the end of “Otello”. In a desperately improvised and inspired performance, Bandrowsky convinces Marvin that the real villain is not him, but instead — the Duke, who killed his beloved daughter Gilda.