Hamlet, Facebook News Feed Edition
- Posted by: Andrew Price
- on August 6, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Much has been made of this new shift in the way we all read. As a nation, we’re told, we’re spending less time with long texts in favor of peripatetic online skimming. Some worry that this “info-snacking” is about as nutritious as a bag of pork rinds. But, as the folks at McSweeney’s demonstrate, we can always just translate Hamlet from iambic pentameter into Facebook news feed format.
Excerpt:
“Hamlet added England to the Places I’ve Been application.
The queen is worried about Ophelia.
Ophelia loves flowers. Flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers. Oh, look, a river.
Ophelia joined the group Maidens Who Don’t Float.
Laertes wonders what the hell happened while he was gone.”
DISCUSSION: 1 Comment
Marvelous. And hilarious. And for more cyber-experimental Shakespeare, see the brilliant Amy Shearn’s “The Most Excellent
and Lamentable 
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Told Entirely in Emoticons.