Super What?

It's almost here! The television event of the year! This calls for a special Bonus Comic!

As I mentioned in the last issue of The Weekly Tickle Brain, today sees Shakespeare Uncovered return to PBS for its second season! I'm so excited. At 9pm Hugh Bonneville will be taking a look at A Midsummer Night's Dream, and at 10pm it will be Christopher Plummer expounding upon King Lear, a role I was lucky enough to see him play at the Stratford Festival. I thoroughly enjoyed the first season of Shakespeare Uncovered, and am really geekily excited about this.

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Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Antigonus Edition

Over the past couple weeks I have, in the interest of science, carefully extrapolated what would happen if Hamlet, Coriolanus, and Cleopatra all had to deal with the infamous bear attack from The Winter's Tale. This has been a fascinating (to me, anyways) experiment, but one scenario remains unaddressed. How would Antigonus, the poor sap who originally got eaten by the bear in The Winter's Tale, really deal with a bear attack?

Oh Antigonus. How could you.

Shakespearean Autocorrects, part 3

Time for some more Shakespearean autocorrects! 

In playing around with my tablet to come up with material for this strip, I also generated the following quote:

For none of spam born shall ham Macbeth.

That's a keeper, too.

Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Cleopatra Edition

We've seen how Hamlet and Coriolanus would have dealt with the bear attack featured in The Winter's Tale, but how about Cleopatra?

Suicide by bear. It's messier and more prolonged than suicide by asp, but it gets the job done in the end. 

Shakespearean Tragedy Bingo

We've had Comedy Bingo and History Bingo. There's only one genre left to cover...

Ah, tragedies.... 

Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Coriolanus Edition

What would you do if you were confronted by a wild bear, as poor old Antigonus was in The Winter's Tale? I've already speculated as to what Hamlet's response would be. At the other end of the spectrum we have everyone's favorite psychopathic warrior, Coriolanus.

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, BEAR.

Shakespearean History Bingo

The Shakespearean Bingo train keeps rolling with today's follow-up to last week's Shakespearean Comedy Bingo. Today we take a look at the histories.

I was really tempted to put squares in that said "Someone is named Henry", "Someone is named Richard", "Someone is named Edward", but it got a little repetitious. Not any more repetitious than "So-and-so is killed", I realize, but you can't really avoid that in the histories. The histories are all about so-and-so being killed. 

Exit, Pursued by Bear: Hamlet Edition

As you all know, I am really fond of the (in)famous "exit, pursued by a bear" shtick from The Winter's Tale. I thought it might be edifying to place characters from various other Shakespeare plays into Antigonus's unfortunate shoes and see how they react to being confronted by a wild and hungry bear. Let's start with Hamlet, shall we?

STOP SOLILOQUIZING AND MAKE UP YOUR MIND, HAMLET, THERE'S A BEAR TRYING TO EAT Y--- ooh, too late.