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fluffy_goddess

Fanfic - Hamlet - The Secret, 1/1

May 21, 2010 00:25

Summary: Hamlet confides in Horatio.

Pairing: None (unless you squint, in which case, Hamlet/Horatio)

Rating: PG-13

Warnings: None

Author's Notes: Takes place sometime between I,v and III,2 in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Disclaimer: Not my characters. Was once a highschool writing project, but is now repurposed as fanfic.

( The Secret )

fandom: hamlet, one-shot, fanfiction

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fluffy_goddess May 21 2010, 16:08:32 UTC

^.^ I was feeling nostalgic. (Actually, I was amazed at how little rewriting had to be done before I was willing to post.)

My favourite was always Midsummer Night's Dream, so I'm with you there, but in high school we did (I'll try to get the order right): Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Hamlet, and King Lear. All you really need to know about Hamlet to get this one, though is:
a) Hamlet and Horatio are pretty much what you'd get if Shakespeare had been trying to provide fanservice to the slashers of his day.
b) They angst all over the place about being each other's best friends, and whether or not they can trust the ghost, and how loyal they are to each other, and who they can trust. Hilariously, if you've got a bad version on tape.

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fluffy_goddess May 22 2010, 01:50:45 UTC

Romeo and Juliet bugged me because we got it under a truly horrific english teacher who nobody liked, and that kind of ruined it for the class. Also: grade ten, mix of genders, Zeffirelli version on screen. So, you know, that was fun. I always wished we could do more of the comedies, though since very few actually got that Merchant of Venice was a comedy, maybe it's for the best taht they didn't.

a) Also, Mercutio! Who can be played as very, very gay, very, very believably.
b) I can't give you a director, or actors, or any useful details but I'm going to tease you with this anecdote anyway but there's a wonderfully horrendous version of King Lear somewhere out there. If the acting is wooden, the costumes and sets look like bad sixties sci-fi (by which I mean, fake-looking polyester 'velvet' and 'silk' and 'cloth of gold', tinfoil crowns, and styrofoam castles), and the only actors emoting at all are the ones playing Edgar and Edmund (and even then, only at each other), you have found the version they played to my twelfth-grade ( ... )

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