Three-Panel Plays, part 4

I take my scissors to the most famous Shakespeare play of all in this installment of Three-Panel Plays!

I mean, that's basically it, right? Did I leave out anything important?

NOTE: I have received several concerned e-mails from eagle-eyed readers about this panel, and yes, "revenge" is a verb as well as a noun. As Shakespeare himself wrote: "If thou didst ever thy dear father love, revenge his foul and most unnatural murder."

However, that does not excuse my writing "Halmet" instead of "Hamlet" in one of the panels. Thanks to Mary FT for catching that!

The sequel to Richard II. I am itching to complete the octalogy of history plays, but it's going to take me a while. There are just so many of them. 

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Three-Panel Plays, part 3

It's time for some more "editing with extreme prejudice" in the third installment of my Three-Panel Plays series! 

Oh no, it's Coriolanus again. I'm pretty sure we're all very familiar with Coriolanus now, thank you very much. 

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Cymbeline is such a busy play that I had to chop out 90% of it to make it fit in three panels. I'm now itching to do a full-length guide to Cymbeline, because it's an adorable play that deserves more than three panels and I love it. 

Stop by on Monday to see how I handle Hamlet and Henry IV, part 1 ! 

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Three-Panel Plays, part 2

The second installment of my Three-Panel-Play series mercilessly abbreviates two comedies.

As You Like It is deceptively hard to capture in only three panels. I apologize for my ludicrous hatchet job. I also apologize for leaving Sylvius and Phebe out of the last panel: there was only space for three happy couples, and even then they had to squish together.

Really, I could probably boil down all the Shakespearean comedies to "_______ and hijinks ensue". That covers most of them, don't you think?

Coming up on Friday: Coriolanus (again!) and Cymbeline. I'm already having palpitations about how I'm going to manage to distill Cymbeline into three panels...

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Three-Panel Plays, part 1

In the four months that I've been working on this website, I have managed to complete two comprehensive, scene-by-scene guides to Shakespeare plays (Richard II and Coriolanus). At this rate, it is going to take me several years to finish the entire canon. For those of you who are too impatient to wait that long, I present to you the first installment of my much-more-abbreviated Three-Panel Play series. 

We will be doing this alphabetically. 

All's Well That Ends Well is generally categorized as a "problem play", mostly because nobody can quite figure out how to handle the ending. Technically it's a comedy because HA HA.

OH NO, SPOILERS! Oh, come on. Everyone knows how Antony and Cleopatra ends. 

I'll be back on Wednesday with As You Like It and A Comedy of Errors. 

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