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April 20, 2004

Pericles

Via BoingBoing, a truly hilarious condensed version of Shakespeare's Pericles (a companion piece for the IM Romeo and Juliet John linked to). Sample:

ACT 2, SCENE 1
Pentapolis

(Enter Pericles, wet.)

(That previous stage direction is verbatim.)

PERICLES: Goddamnit!

(Three fishermen enter.)

FISHERMAN 1: (unintelligible)

FISHERMAN 2: (unintelligible)

FISHERMAN 3: (laughs)

PERICLES: (after five minutes of listening to the fishermen's cryptic babbling) Rustic people certainly are amusing. Hey! Where am I?

FISHERMAN 1: Pentapolis, ruled by King Simonides. He has a daughter --

PERICLES: Who he's having sex with?

FISHERMAN 1: Um, no.

PERICLES: Well...good! Good for him.

FISHERMAN 1: Anyway, he has a daughter, and her birthday is tomorrow, and princes and knights from all over are going to vie for her love.

Really, I'm not sure that it's more ridiculous than Cymbeline, though. Perhaps they are equi-ridiculous.

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