Bite-Sized Bard: Shakespeare In Two Panels

"Eric Kim tackles all 36 of the playwright’s productions in his recently-released book, The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare. The 33-year-old Toronto cartoonist describes it as Cole’s Notes for Cole’s Notes. 'I know I’m no Shakespeare scholar, but in doing this it’s fun to have reduced Shakespeare to something a little more approachable.'"

Read the full interview at The Afterword | Eric Kim's site Inkskratch

Previously on Popped Culture...
Shakespeare A-Z 
Green Eggs and Hamlet
Scooby-Doo And The Prince of Denmark 

Shakespeare A-Z

Outside of Macbeth I've just never been much of a Shakespeare aficionado, but I know a great concept when I see one and SeedUvPain's Shakespeare A-Z for Shirt.Woot more than fits the bill.

For those of you who need a refresher (like me) here is a who's who:

A-J: Antony (Julius Caesar), Bottom (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Cleopatra (Antony and Cleopatra), Dromio (Comedy of Errors), Edmund (King Lear), Falstaff (Henry IV), Goodfellow (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Hamlet (Hamlet) Iago (Othello), Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar)

K-T: Kate (Taming of the Shrew), Lady M (Macbeth), Macbeth (Macbeth), Nurse (Romeo and Juliet) Ophelia (Hamlet), Prospero (Tempest), Quintus (Titus Andronicus), Richard III (Richard III), Shylock (Merchant of Venice), Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet)

U-Z: Ulysses (Troilus and Cressida), Valentine (Two Gentlemen of Verona), Weird Sisters (MacBeth), eXit, pursued by a bear (Winter’s Tale), Yorick (Hamlet), Z (Shakespeare)

Previously on Popped Culture...
Green Eggs and Hamlet
Scooby-Doo And The Prince of Denmark
William Shakespeare's Pulp Fiction

Green Eggs and Hamlet

I ask to be or not to be.
That is the question I ask of me.
This sullied life, it makes me shudder.
My uncle's boffing dear sweet mother.
Would I, could I take me life?
Could I, should I end this strife?
Should I jump out of a plane?
Or throw myself before a train?
Should I from a cliff just leap?
Could I put myself to sleep?
Shoot myself or take some poison?
Maybe try self-immolation?
To shudder off this mortal coil,
I could stab myself with a fencing foil.
Slash my wrists while in the bath?
Would it end my angst and wrath?
To sleep, to dream, now there's the rub.
I could drop a toaster in my tub.
Would all be glad if I were dead?
Could I perhaps kill them instead?
This line of thought takes consideration -
For I'm the king of procrastination.

(Image via Shirt.Woot; bad poetry via some ugly site)

Previously on Popped Culture...
Scooby-Doo And The Prince of Denmark
William Shakespeare's Pulp Fiction
Lots of Good Fun That Is Funny

Scooby-Doo And The Prince of Denmark

 

I'm pretty sure I would have enjoyed (and understood) Shakespeare considerably more in high school if it involved Scooby-Doo and the gang — and was written on Post-It notes.  (Tragedy Averted
by Savage Chickens)

Previously on Popped Culture...
William Shakespeare's Pulp Fiction
Fear And Loathing In The Mystery Machine
Velma The Vampire Hunter

William Shakespeare's Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction, as performed by the King's Men

ACT I SCENE 2. A road, morning. Enter a carriage, with JULES and VINCENT, murderers.

Jules: And know'st thou what the French name cottage pie?
Vincent: Say they not cottage pie, in their own tongue?
J: But nay, their tongues, for speech and taste alike
Are strange to ours, with their own history:
Gaul knoweth not a cottage from a house.
V: What say they then, pray?
J: Hachis Parmentier.
V: Hachis Parmentier! What name they cream?
J: Cream is but cream, only they say le crème.
V: What do they name black pudding?
J: I know not; I visited no inn it could be bought.

From Kevin Pease, with my shoddy Photoshop work.