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Can be read [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6285886/1/The_Comedy_of_bHamlet_b here]. |
Can be read [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6285886/1/The_Comedy_of_bHamlet_b here]. |
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* [[Alas, Poor Yorick]] |
* [[Alas, Poor Yorick]] |
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* [[The Beautiful Elite]]: Everyone in Miami is ''[[Running Gag|sexy]]''. |
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Latest revision as of 13:51, 28 August 2017
Exactly What It Says on the Tin. William Shakespeare's Hamlet rewritten as a comedy, the second in a series of genre-flipped Shakespeare plays by Shrikecatcher.
Can be read here.
Tropes used in The Comedy of Hamlet include:
- Alas, Poor Yorick
- The Beautiful Elite: Everyone in Miami is sexy.
- Bloody Hilarious
- Butt Monkey: Hamlet.
- Captain Obvious: Horatio puts it best in his narration:
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We all called [Polonius] Captain Obvious, because that was his last name and it's only polite to address him in such a manner. |
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- Cool Car: Horatio drives a mother-effin' Humvee.
- Cool Shades: Horatio.
- Country Matters
- Donut Mess with a Cop: The opening scene takes place at a Doughnut King.
- Emo Teen: Hamlet.
- Engaging Conversation: A Running Gag.
- Epic Fail: Invoked by Polonius when his servant Reynaldo fails a pop quiz:
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Polonius: "I will take a snapshot of this moment, upload it to the Internet and label it epic!" |
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- Even the Guys Want Him: Laertes.
- Everything's Better with Bob: He's the servant that takes a photo of Reynaldo's Epic Fail and uploads it to Failblog - and is soon thereafter fired by a confused Polonius. In the last act, he returns with a vengeance and kills Reynaldo.
- Evil Uncle: Claudius, who is totally not a Nazi.
- First-Person Smartass: Horatio Caine, our narrator.
- Food as Bribe: Horatio mentions in his narration that doughnuts are just as popular as illegal drugs by smugglers for their use in making many a Dirty Cop.
- Get Thee to a Nunnery
- Glasses Pull: Come on, this is Horatio Caine we're talking about. It only happens every other line of dialogue.
- Goodnight, Sweet Prince
- Hoist by His Own Petard
- Hurricane of Aphorisms: Polonius.
- Kill'Em All: Even Horatio.
- Kill Him Already
- Miami: The logical setting to relocate this classic tragedy.
- Oedipus Complex: Hamlet and Gertrude.
- Only in Florida
- Overly Long Gag: As mentioned above, Horatio's Glasses Pull.
- Pool Scene: Ophelia's introduction in Act I, Scene iii.
- Rapid-Fire Comedy
- Rule of Funny
- Running Gag
- Setting Update: To present-day Miami.
- Sibling Rivalry: Laertes and Ophelia have a particularly violent one.
- The Ophelia: Guess who.
- Those Two Guys: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
- Those Wacky Nazis: Claudius's henchmen.
- Waxing Lyrical: Hamlet can have whatever he likes.
- You Killed My Father