Since he did me the favor of a link in his post on Shakespeare Blogs (noting that Such Shakespeare Stuff seems to be the second oldest Shakespeare blog on the net!), I’ll return the favor with a link to LastSyllable.net. I’m pretty sure I’ve linked to him a few times in the past, he certainly comes up enough on my daily blog filters. Usually his commentary is on the deeper side than we do here (right now he’s reading Bloom and has commentary on Julius Caesar), but it’s always quality. Recommended.

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Theatre Folk has an actual store where you can purchase scripts of plays adapted from Shakespeare. Titles include “Drop Dead, Juliet”, “Much Ado About High School”, “Mmmmbeth”, and other more traditional adaptations (i..e for audience and time). All plays are safe for high school production, and seem to offer free sample pages. Cool.

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I’m surprised I’d missed Shakespeare Parodies until now, given the obvious URL. It’s cute. It pains me that he has a typo in the title of the homepage, though (“colection”). Here’s how my favorite scene from Hamlet gets lambasted:

HAMLET
Now, Mother, what’s the matter?

QUEEN
Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.

HAMLET
Mother, thou hast my father much offended.

QUEEN
Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue

HAMLET
Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
And thou hast my father much offended!

QUEEN
Have you forgotten who I am?

HAMLET
No! You are the Queen, your husband’s
brother’s wife; and — would it were not so —
you are my mother! And thou hast my father
much offended! Let’s see you top that!

QUEEN
I don’t understand a word you’re saying.

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Hi Everybody,

Sorry I haven’t been around — just took a week vacation with the family, and had absolutely no net access (believe me, I tried. Visions of me wandering through every corner of our rented house on the lake, laptop in hand, praying, hitting “Refresh wireless network list”, taking one step to the left, and repeating).

Anyway, I’ve caught up on my feeds so hopefully I’ll have a bunch of stuff to post. Here’s a random one — while watching Beauty and the Beast with the kids, Gaston (the bad guy) is singing something, I think the “Kill the Beast” song, and suddenly I hear, “Light your torch, Mount your horse, screw your courage to the sticking place…”

I lift my head. “Huh,” I say to the room in general. “Shakespeare. Macbeth.”

Nobody cared. But I figured somebody reading my blog would :).

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