It's snowed a lot where I am recently. And when life gives you snow, you make snowmen!
...unfortunately the kind of snow that life gave me was the dry, powdery kind, so I couldn't actually make any snowmen. Oh well. Maybe next time.
The Shakespeare Birthday Book
One of my best friends was visiting town last December and I went over to her parents' house to hang out with her. Her parents were getting rid of stuff and, knowing my interest in Shakespeare, had set aside a little book for me.
I will take roasted crabs over Hamlet angst any day.
Super What?
It's almost here! The television event of the year! This calls for a special Bonus Comic!
As I mentioned in the last issue of The Weekly Tickle Brain, today sees Shakespeare Uncovered return to PBS for its second season! I'm so excited. At 9pm Hugh Bonneville will be taking a look at A Midsummer Night's Dream, and at 10pm it will be Christopher Plummer expounding upon King Lear, a role I was lucky enough to see him play at the Stratford Festival. I thoroughly enjoyed the first season of Shakespeare Uncovered, and am really geekily excited about this.
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Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Antigonus Edition
Over the past couple weeks I have, in the interest of science, carefully extrapolated what would happen if Hamlet, Coriolanus, and Cleopatra all had to deal with the infamous bear attack from The Winter's Tale. This has been a fascinating (to me, anyways) experiment, but one scenario remains unaddressed. How would Antigonus, the poor sap who originally got eaten by the bear in The Winter's Tale, really deal with a bear attack?
Oh Antigonus. How could you.
Shakespearean Autocorrects, part 3
Time for some more Shakespearean autocorrects!
In playing around with my tablet to come up with material for this strip, I also generated the following quote:
For none of spam born shall ham Macbeth.
That's a keeper, too.
Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Cleopatra Edition
We've seen how Hamlet and Coriolanus would have dealt with the bear attack featured in The Winter's Tale, but how about Cleopatra?
Suicide by bear. It's messier and more prolonged than suicide by asp, but it gets the job done in the end.
Shakespearean Tragedy Bingo
Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Coriolanus Edition
What would you do if you were confronted by a wild bear, as poor old Antigonus was in The Winter's Tale? I've already speculated as to what Hamlet's response would be. At the other end of the spectrum we have everyone's favorite psychopathic warrior, Coriolanus.
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, BEAR.