A stick-figure Shakespeare comic by Mya Lixian Gosling
Let's meet one half of our titular duo...
To be absolutely fair to Romeo, most of the people in this play speak in hyperbolic rhyming couplets. That doesn't make him any less self-indulgent, however...
Romeo and Juliet
Dramatis Personae | Prologue | 1.1a | 1.1b | 1.1c
When we last left the cast of Romeo and Juliet, they were engaged in a mass brawl in the marketplace. As usual.
Benvolio is totally underrated, by the way. He's one of the few truly sensible people in the entire play.
Romeo and Juliet
Dramatis Personae | Prologue | 1.1a | 1.1b
Let us set the scene... It is a quiet day in Verona's main marketplace, when all of a sudden various young men wearing conspicuously different-colored clothing arrive...
It's a pity that Sampson and Gregory's banter is often heavily cut down in performance, as it's one of the more sustained examples of that classical Shakespearean technique I like to call "dick jokes".
It's then immediately followed by a mass brawl precipitated by one guy biting his thumb (an offensive gesture) at another guy.
And people say Shakespeare is boring...
Romeo and Juliet
Dramatis Personae | Prologue | 1.1a
Our scene-by-scene journey through Romeo and Juliet continues today with a look at one of the most famous prologues in literature:
SPOILERS, man! SPOILERS.
Romeo and Juliet
Dramatis Personae | Prologue
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....
