The Comedy of Hamlet

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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

• 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:

We all called [Polonius] Captain Obvious, because that was his last name and it's only polite to address him in such a manner.

• 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:

Polonius: "I will take a snapshot of this moment, upload it to the Internet and label it epic!" Reynaldo: "No, my lord, anything but that!"

• 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
  • Only in Miami
• 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