Although Shakespeare is very romantic, I don't really understand anything he says. I mean, think of Romeo and Juliet, what's more romantic than dying for your one true love??? I wish his plays were translated into today's English, and then we might understand and enjoy his works more.
This cartoon is making fun of Hamlet, which is one of the plays I studied in Drama. We watched the Mel Gibson movie, and it was super boring. It was also weird because his mother married his uncle,who killed his father to become king. Hamlet figures it out, and then he thinks everybody he's close to is in cahoots with his uncle, so he pretty much kills everybody to avenge his father's death (even though everybody is innocent except his uncle). And then Hamlet dies too because his uncle poisoned him before his uncle died. It's like a soap opera - so dramatic. It's all in ye olde English too, so it's majorly hard to understand. But oh well, I guess this is what we have to look forward to in here...
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Hamlet wasnt poisened by his uncle, it was the guy he was duling with, he put some kind of something on the end of his sord so that he could barly swipe him and he would die.
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