A stick-figure Shakespeare comic by Mya Lixian Gosling
Time for another scene-by-scene retelling of an entire play! This time around it's that classic (i.e. one you probably all had to study in school at sometime in your life) Romeo and Juliet! Let's start, as always, with a look at the dramatis personae:
Tune in again next week as we launch straight into the MOST FAMOUS PROLOGUE EVER.
Time for another Hamilton/Shakespeare parody! Today's offering takes Romeo and Juliet and sets it to "The Room Where It Happens":
In case you missed them, don't forget to check out my other Hamilton parodies:
If musical Shakespeare parodies are your thing, I've also got:
Seeing as tomorrow is (alas) Inauguration Day, I thought I would take some of our incoming president's more recent tweets and match them up with Shakespearean characters... with some strategic alterations where necessary.
The first draft of this comic was, like, all history plays. His tweets match up very well with history plays, alarmingly....
Time for another installment of Pun Police!
Just for the record, it's definitely not funny if you have to explain it...
Following up on last Thursday's comic highlighting some of the many mothers missing from Shakespeare's plays, here are some more missing mothers, rightfully restored to their places.
A few thoughts:
From a dramatic standpoint, there's definitely a reason why Shakespeare left these mothers out in favor of mothers like Volumnia and Margaret of Anjou...
King Lear really suffers from a lack of mothers. Mothers would have sorted that whole play out before you even got to the second scene.
I kind of want to do a series of comics now on how Mrs. Polonius manages to diffuse the entire situation at Elsinore and everyone ends up over at her place talking through their feelings over cups of hot tea and some scones.
The number of Shakespearean characters who have a father but are, for some usually unspoken reason, missing a mother is often commented on. This isn't to say that there aren't any mothers in Shakespeare.... there are just a lot of missing ones. Let's see what happens when we put some of them back.
Queen Lear would have SHUT THAT THING DOWN.
Happy New Year, everyone! 2016 is (fortunately) fading in the rear view mirror of life, and I'm so excited to see where Good Tickle Brain takes me this year. Thanks for being along for the ride!
Let's make some Shakespearean New Year's Resolutions, shall we?
And just in case you missed the past couple installments of resolutions, here they are:
