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.

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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).