Is this a reboot I see before me?

Aug 02, 2011 19:34

Certain recent events in the DCverse as well as earlier events related to Spiderman a few years ago have inspired me to look for precedents. Turns out there is one, in Elizabethan times, coming to you translated in modern dialogue by an anonymous transscriber. One of those pesky informers that apparantly showed up frequently in Elizabethan England ( Read more... )

silliness, dc, shakespeare, marvel

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linaerys August 2 2011, 17:59:30 UTC
Hee! Shakespeare's history plays were already kinda reboots on history.

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vitruvian23 August 2 2011, 22:00:31 UTC
And older plays, too. I think, given the nature of superhero comic books, it might have been more apt to have it be either Shakespeare or Jonson being commissioned to reboot the other's plays, and those of Marlowe, as opposed to his own. Or some playwright a generation or two later, but that wouldn't have been nearly as fun, and I'm sure that most people wouldn't get any of the resulting Dryden or Aphra Behn jokes (hey, this reboot would have as many women as the DC one!) nearly as easily.

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selenak August 3 2011, 03:46:47 UTC
They totally were, but rebooting history (and other people's plots, see all the plays except for Dream and Tempest, as Neil Gaiman pointed out) is one thing. Being told to reboot your own stuff is different. :)

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likeadeuce August 2 2011, 18:26:21 UTC
Let me guess. Falstaff is to be portrayed by Jonathan Rhys Meyers a good looking young man about Hal's age who refuses to gain weight for the part?

Oh, and Will, you need to make Kate younger. And show off her legs. Make her disguise herself as a boy to hang out with the lads, you're good at that stuff.

Not gonna lie, I'd be all over that.

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selenak August 3 2011, 03:43:40 UTC
You guessed it! (And it's totally JRM time travelled to Elizabethan England.)

I knew you'd like that part, and expect your next Yuletide story to feature crossdressing Kate.:)

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likeadeuce August 3 2011, 03:44:55 UTC
You make me sad I no longer have my 1602 Jean Grey userpic.

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lakrids404 August 2 2011, 21:20:01 UTC
The rest is silence?

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kathyh August 2 2011, 22:25:53 UTC
Bwahahaha...now we know why Shakespeare retired to Stratford!

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selenak August 3 2011, 03:49:53 UTC
Alas, his plays were rebooted anyway. *remembers the early Stuart era Lear with the happy ending in particular* :) Editors!

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raincitygirl August 3 2011, 00:43:21 UTC
ROTFLOL!

Poor Will. The things he had to put up with from producers.

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