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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 24, 2017 15:12:01 GMT -5
This is turning into an incredibly informative thread!
Looking forward to reading that Batman/Hamlet pitch.
Thank you all!
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Post by MDG on Apr 24, 2017 15:19:53 GMT -5
The lead story in Detective 425 is set around a production of Macbeth. {Spoiler: Click to show}  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 24, 2017 15:38:17 GMT -5
Dick Grayson and Daphne Pennyworth (Alfred's niece) doing the balcony scene in Batman 216...  He later uses his Shakespeare knowledge to save the young actress's life...  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 24, 2017 15:44:12 GMT -5
Aside fromhis surname, was there ever any connection made between Kent Shakespeare and William Shakespeare?  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 24, 2017 15:46:36 GMT -5
This is turning into an incredibly informative thread! Looking forward to reading that Batman/Hamlet pitch. Thank you all! Thomas Wayne's ambitious brother was behind the murder, made to look like a hold-up! Martha isn't killed; she marries the murdering brother! Thomas Wayne's ghost, dressed in the bat costume he was wearing from the story "The First Batman," tells Bruce "Become a bat! Avenge me!" James Gordon was Thomas Wayne's main advisor. He has a lot of advice for his son, James Jr, that surprisingly doesn't stop him from becoming a murdering sociopath. James Gordon has a daughter Barbara who is so overcome by grief at all the things happening in the play that she lets her guard down and is attacked and crippled by the Joker, who is now the King of Norway for some reason. Alfred is Bruce's confidant. When he expresses great wonder at the story told by Bruce, Bruce responds "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Alfred." Um, I'm not sure where it goes from here. Maybe Two-Face and Hush could be Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? |
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 24, 2017 15:57:50 GMT -5
This has nothing to do with comics, but I thought I'd provide this link to a site devoted to debunking (and cruelly mocking) the idea that Edward de Vere ever had anything to do with the writing of Shakespeare's plays. The Man Who Wasn't Hamlet |
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 24, 2017 20:49:06 GMT -5
Plays don't need writers! Name Withheld |
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Post by foxley on Apr 24, 2017 21:31:24 GMT -5
Worst attempt to fool the local yokels EVER:  (Although a production of Hamlet where Hamlet was dressed as Superman would certainly be... interesting.) |
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 25, 2017 11:21:52 GMT -5
Worst attempt to fool the local yokels EVER: (Although a production of Hamlet where Hamlet was dressed as Superman would certainly be... interesting.) Probably not much different than Hamlet looking like Flash Gordon...  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 25, 2017 12:32:46 GMT -5
My name is Laertes Montoya... You killed my father... prepare to die. |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Apr 25, 2017 16:52:15 GMT -5
I always rolled my eyes when John Byrne would quote Shakespeare (he did it a lot in The Next Men) and attribute it to Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. I think I was starting to be suspicious that Byrne was a bit of a pretentious twit, but that was the clincher. I wonder if the "Authorship" thread at Byrne Robotics is still accessible. Lots of laughs. Byrne Robotics threads on Shakespeare are still available: link1link2link3link4 |
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 25, 2017 17:17:19 GMT -5
Link # 3 is great. That's the one I remember reading in full a few years ago. Byrne as usual makes a lot of unsupported (and generally debunked or irrelevant) claims supporting Oxford, but in this thread (which goes to 27 pages), there's a lot of pushback against the Oxfordian nonsense from people who have done enough of the work to know how unlikely is this idea that Edward de Vere wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare.
I found it very amusing at times.
Thanks, chaykinstevens!
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Post by berkley on Apr 25, 2017 23:13:32 GMT -5
Worst attempt to fool the local yokels EVER: (Although a production of Hamlet where Hamlet was dressed as Superman would certainly be... interesting.) They should have said, "This is the latest thing in London, you ignorant provincials." |
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Post by foxley on Apr 26, 2017 1:25:18 GMT -5
...And in this issue, the Sweat Hogs stage a production of Julius Caesar. No, seriously, that's the plot.  |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Apr 27, 2017 12:16:32 GMT -5
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