Hamlet: The Facebook version
Aug 29th, 2008 by Ashok
This hilarious little piece is from McSweeney’s, which, in case you haven’t discovered it yet, is only one of the smartest, most nerdy (in a good way) online lit-zine around. I’ve block-quoted the first couple of paras below. Appropriately enough, I was alerted to it by Writer-Director Abbas Tyrewala’s Facebook Page. It helps if you’re familiar with Facebook because then you’ll get all the terminology.
HAMLET
(FACEBOOK NEWS
FEED EDITION).BY SARAH SCHMELLING
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Horatio thinks he saw a ghost.
Hamlet thinks it’s annoying when your uncle marries your mother right after your dad dies.
The king thinks Hamlet’s annoying.
Laertes thinks Ophelia can do better.
Hamlet’s father is now a zombie.
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The king poked the queen.
The queen poked the king back.
Hamlet and the queen are no longer friends.
Marcellus is pretty sure something’s rotten around here.
Hamlet became a fan of daggers.
Read the full piece at McSweeney’s. Plenty more great writing where that came from.
