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- Skinhead Hamlet
- Appreciated by Snarfblat
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- by
- K.K. Campbell
-
- Great art is timeless. But language is not. A never-ending fear is
- that great cultural works of art lose their appeal to new generations of
- youth because they remain locked in the antiquated tongue of past eras.
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- In an effort to keep Shakespeare alive with the skinhead subculture, the
- fine students of Washington University have launched a new translation
- of Shakespeare's timeless Hamlet.
-
- "Our hope was to achieve something like the effect of the New English
- Bible," the editors explain in their brief introduction to the work in
- progress.
-
- We at eye applaud this historic effort and look forward to the completed
- manuscript. Here's a peek at a couple of scenes:
-
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- ACT I, SCENE I: The battlements of Elsinore Castle. Enter Hamlet,
- followed by Ghost.
-
- Ghost: Oi! Mush!
- Hamlet: Yer?
- Ghost: I was fucked! (Exit Ghost.)
- Hamlet: O, fuck. (Exit Hamlet.)
-
- SCENE III: Ophelia's Bedroom. Enter Ophelia and Laertes.
-
- Laertes: I'm fucking off now. Watch Hamlet doesn't slip you one while
- I'm gone.
- Ophelia: I'll be fucked if he does. (Exeunt.)
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- ACT II, SCENE I: A corridor in the castle. Enter Hamlet reading. Enter
- Polonius.
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- Polonius: Oi! You!
- Hamlet: Fuck off, grandad!
- (Exit Polonius. Enter Rosencranz and Guildenstern.)
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: Oi! Oi! Mucca!
- Hamlet: Fuck off, the pair of you!
- (Exit Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.)
- Hamlet: (Alone) To fuck or be fucked.
- (Enter Ophelia.)
- Ophelia: My Lord!
- Hamlet: Fuck off to a nunnery! (They exit in different directions.)
-
- And now the exciting conclusion. Note how the intricacies of the Bard's
- plotting remains as powerful as ever.
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- ACT V SCENE II: Large Hall. Enter Hamlet, Laertes, Court, Gertrude and
- Claudius.
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- Laertes: Oi, wanker, let's get on with it.
- Hamlet: Delighted, fuckface.
- (They fight and both are poisoned by the poisoned sword.)
- Laertes: Fuck!
- Hamlet: Fuck!
- Gertrude: (The Queen drinks.) Fucking odd wine!
- Claudius: You drunk the wrong fucking cup, you stupid cow!
- Hamlet: (Pouring the poison down Claudius' throat) Well, fuck you!
- Claudius: I'm fair and squarely fucked.
- Laertes: Oi, mush, no hard feelings, eh?
- Hamlet: Yer.
- (Laertes dies.)
- Hamlet: Oi! Horatio!
- Horatio: Yer?
- Hamlet: I'm fucked. The rest is fucking silence.
- (Hamlet dies in Horatio's arms.)
- Horatio: Fuck, that was no ordinary wanker, you know.
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