A stick-figure Shakespeare comic by Mya Lixian Gosling
Another dip into the archives with this (very boring, totally random, strategy-free) board game based on Shakespeare’s life!
Seriously, don’t try to play it. It might be a decent educational aid but it SUCKS as a game.
New comics returning next week! Hopefully! If my brain cooperates!
One final installment in the latest run of Iconography comics, and, it’s Shakespeare’s contemporary Christopher Marlowe! Everyone knows what Marlowe looks like, right?
Incidentally, I’m taking next week off to recover from a long trip, but the rest of the month will be MARLOWE MAY, featuring 3-panel overviews of all of his plays! Don’t worry, we’ll be back to good ol’ Shakespeare next month, but for now, buckle on your boots and brush up on your bombast. KIT’S COMING.
Everyone thinks of Shakespeare as an Elizabethan playwright, but actually he was just as much a Jacobean playwright, doing much of his work under the reign (and patronage) of Elizabeth’s successor, the numerically confusing King James I & VI.
Maybe James didn’t portrait well, but he always looks amazingly blank in all his depictions. Or maybe I’m just projecting…
No look at Shakespeare would be complete without a look at the two monarchs whose reigns overlapped his life. First up is Good Queen Bess herself:
Don’t mess with the Bess.
I just wanted to take a moment to shine a light on one of my favorite pieces of Shakespearean fashion: the (in)famous pumpkin pants!
As if it wasn't already hard enough to take pumpkin pants seriously...
....PANSIED SLOPS.
Well, that about wraps up Shakespeare Month! Let's just take a quick look at Shakespeare's incredibly prolonged afterlife:
I'll just end Shakespeare Month with these random thoughts:
Don't take Shakespeare too seriously. Enjoy him.
There is no right or wrong way to perform or consume Shakespeare.
You're allowed not to like Shakespeare.
If you think Shakespeare is difficult to understand, or boring, that doesn't make you stupid or uncultured.
Shakespeare's plays aren't necessarily perfect or universal...
...unless you want them to be.
Don't take Shakespeare too seriously. Enjoy him.
That's it for Shakespeare Month! I'm taking next week off but will be back here on May 8 with all new Shakespeare comics for you!
Shakespeare Month is winding down, as is our boy Will's theatrical career...
Did you think this was the end of Shakespeare Month? Well, THINK AGAIN! Tune in on Monday (yes, Monday, not Tuesday) for a special Shakespearean birthday comic!
Shakespeare Month at Good Tickle Brain continues with a look at two of the physical spaces that defined so much of Shakespeare's career.
Tune in on Thursday to see the end of Shakespeare... or is it the beginning????
