Thursday, September 27, 2012

The Tiddy Bit I know about Hamlet

I know the opening of Hamlet's soliloquy. Almost everything I know about Hamlet comes from these resources.
-Bo Burnham
-The Lion King
-Being a T.A. for Dr. Preston

Bo Burnham what a help he was! That sounds sarcastic, but it's not. One of his albums is called "words words words", a direct allusion towards Hamlet. A lot of his stand up and songs also revolve around the play.
Examples(WARNING, LANGUAGE)
-"Like Hamlet, all about words, words, words. Dividing wholes into thirds, thirds, thirds."
-"You hold nature as 'twere a mirror of yourself. Just because you're messed up doesn't mean we are too. Just because you want to bang your mom doesn't mean Danish princes do, what Who? Yeah, Hamlet, Shakespeare, that's right, the young prince whose father died at the hands of his uncle with whom his mother lied, sound familiar? It's the fucking Lion King. You stole from a Disney movie, you androgynous douche, what's next The story of a French king on a quest to find his lost son... Nemo? Oh, and by the way, poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no fucking sense make"
- At one point Bo even recites To be or Not to be up to "must give us pause" following up with "pffft, like what?"

The Lion King. That's pretty self explanatory, and if you're confused go to example number two of Bo Burnham.

Being Preston's T.A. I had to hear to be or not to be over and over and over again. I also had to hear all of them discuss the entire play in detail.

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