Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)

Posted by Dennis G. Jerz on August 6, 2008 11:53 AM | | Comments (0) ~
McSweeney's:

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.
Thanks for the suggestion, Mike. (Twitter would probably catch the back-and-forth spirit of a drama a little better.)


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