Showing posts with label hamlet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hamlet. Show all posts

Thursday, December 13, 2012

The ULTIMATE Hamlet Playlist (Britney Spears Style)

Because there is a gap in the market for Britney Spears playlists to Shakespeare's plays. 

Hamlet Comes Home: The First Three Seconds of Gimmie More

Hamlet Sees a Ghost: Crazy

Should I really kill the King of Denmark?: I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman

Hamlet tells Ophelia to Join the Nunnery: Womanizer

Hamlet Kills his Girlfriend's Father Thinking he was the King of Denmark: (You Wanna) Piece of Me

Hamlet Jumps into Ophelia's Grave: Hit Me Baby One More Time

Laertes Plans to Kill Claudius (or anyone, really. He's very easily persuaded.): Radar

Laertes Poisons his Sword: Toxic

Hamlet Kills Laertes and Claudius: Oops, I Did it Again    (see Hamlet Kill's Girlfriend's Father...)

Hamlet in Relation to Shakespeare in all of his Protagonists in his Tragic Plays: I'm A Slave 4 U

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Hamlet the Goldfish

Me: If I had a goldfish, I would name it Ophelia. And then another one named Hamlet.

Emily: But goldfish die so easily!

Me: Well, so do they.

I didn't mean to. It slipped out.

In other news, I'm enjoying Shakespeare, as always.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Hamlet and Britney Spears

During English class today, we were discussing Hamlet's sense of ownership for his actions, in relation to his hesitation to kill Claudius. Someone suggested that this was because Hamlet, only twenty years old, does not want to disrespect an elder like this, because he was not a man yet, and he never has had to prove himself to be one. He was not a boy, though not yet a man. Just like Britney Spears. So, here is the official song for Hamlet.