A link someone gave me, on wordslikewind

[capri0mni]

Stick figure Hamlet.

Yes.

That Hamlet.

Yes. The Whole play. Word for word. As a webcomic.

It is a bit wordy, in the speachy bits, I admit. And it's not quite as fast moving as a moving picture.

But it's easier to read and understand (imnsho) than the traditional, printed, text with footnotes and margin notes every three lines, 'cause it is illustrated, and all.

And you only have to read four panels at a time.

...He's down to the final scene.

I wonder if he'll do another play, next.

Comments

[pedanther]

That link is borken. (It shouldn't have the / on the end.)

Fun comic, though. I like the in-joke when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern first appear.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The link is fixed, now.

[jekesta]

I love stick figure hamlet, I think I lost track of it somewhere around him killing his uncle, I can't believe it's going to end. Dude. I hope he does another.

And I agree, comic type versions of plays are so much better, my sister recently bought a full graphic novel of Macbeth, with all the original text, and it's clearly how plays should be published if people are reading them, rather than performing them. It seems so obvious when you actually notice it.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Heh. Earlier this week, Charlie Rose had Patrick Stewart as a guest on his show; Stewart is currently playing the title role in the Scottish Play, and when that's over, he'll be playing King Claudius in Hamlet.

Maybe not, but it feels like some sort of BardTragedy!convergence going on...

[alto2.livejournal.com]

How utterly brilliant! And I agree with the idea of publishing the plays as comics/graphic novels. Definitely a better format than what we usually get now, especially for kids.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I think that it's the footnotes that really ruin most text versions of Shakespeare -- they pull your attention away from the line, to the bottom of the page and back, sometimes three times in one sentance. I'd have trouble following an article in last week's People magazine, if it were written in the same way! Geez!

With comics (especially with more sophisticated illustration than stick figures), a lot of that can be skipped completely.

[gordon-r-d.livejournal.com]

There's a company working on this, along with some Dickens, Shelley and Bronte - http://www.classicalcomics.com/titles.html

They've got some good people working on them too, the bloke doing the art for A Christmas Carol just finished doing the Doctor Who comic strip for almost three years and I'm tempted to buy Jane Eyre just because John M Burns is doing the art, he's a bit of a legend in British comics.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

*clicky*

*oooh* ... I may just succumb and buy the Tempest, when it comes out (trying to remember if it's Richard III or Richard II that is my Cousin Martin's favorite...).

Thanks for the link!

[pedanther]

trying to remember if it's Richard III or Richard II that is my Cousin Martin's favorite...

Cover the bases: get him all three!

(...what do you mean, "they're not two parts of The Richard Trilogy"?)

[rob-t-firefly.livejournal.com]

In the past week I've rewatched Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of a made-for-German-TV version of Hamlet, and now this comes along.

Hamlet overload!

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Maybe there is something in the air...

[gordon-r-d.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of a wee thing that used to run on a show called Liquid Television, which was Stick-Figure Theatre which usually redid a scene from a movie using figured much like the ones in Hamlet, but animated. They even had the lines of the notebook the re-enaction had been "drawn" in. I remember they did a bit from Night Of The Living Dead and the crash of the Hindenburg. It was fun.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[pedanther]

I've been having a bit of a Shakespeare-y week, actually. Apart from your posts, on Tuesday I got to see As You Like It for the first time (brilliant new production by Bell Shakespeare - made me wish I had a livejournal so I could order the Australians on my friendslist to all go and see it), and last night I was flicking through a book of one-act plays and came across one called "Anne of Shottery" (and, a bit embarrassingly, didn't realise who it was about until I read the dramatis personae).

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

As You Like It was the very exact play that made me fall in love with Shakepeare in the first place!

It was a rainy Sunday afternoon in the 80's, and I was flipping through the tv channels seeing nothing but golf, boxing or bowling, and then I flipped to the pbs station, and saw two women in fancy Elizabethan-like dress, and one asked the other: "Why so sad, Cuz?"

Well, "cuz," is modern slang (right?), so I thought I was in for a Shakespeare Spoof. By the time I realized it wasn't a spoof, but the Real Thing, I was hooked. And my favorite scene was the bad poetry mocking--probably still is. ;-)