QUERY:

Have there been any retellings of Hamlet from Horatio's perspective? Preferably not modernized or otherwise setting-shifted.

Offhand, I know of retellings from the perspectives of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, Ophelia, and Claudius (...I think? I can't confirm that last one).

Related, if anyone knows of a decent list of Hamlet retellings in ( Read more... )

Eventually I will post something that is not a meme.

That day is not today.

( lengthy countdown meme goin' around )

The little brother showed up at 9:30 last night. Apparently it's spring break for his school? He neglected to tell anyone about this until he actually...y'know, showed up. It was kind of funny. (My mom claims she used to, not only not tell her family she was coming home until she was actually home, she would come home, crash out on the couch, and ( Read more... )

The first secret in today's fandomsecrets batch is about Hamlet. *loves* And this seems as good a time as any to advance one of my crack theories, which is this: If Horatio and Mercutio switched plays, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet would both have ended much earlier and without all the bloodshed. Mercutio would have smacked Hamlet around until he went ahead and ( Read more... )

Is this not the tackiest damn thing that you have ever seen?

Also: whatthedenmark. It's a modern!Hamlet RP, and I just found it and am already in love with their Horatio. Yah, yah, I'm always in love with anyone's Horatio. But they've got a really good one!

..this is what a Shakespeare dork looks like.

[[NOTE: This was written at 1AM. It could not be posted at 1AM because my wireless Internet spontaneously decided to hate me. But there you go.]]

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Yay! I finished my horribly overdue Shakespeare paper!

It's full of really tortured sentence structure and some conclusions that are really reaching, but it's four and a bit pages, and it's done, and that's the important part, right?

Right?

Eleven things on my mind right now:

OneI am totally screwed ( Read more... )