New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for September 16, 2009

” Security ! ” lol

Put the run on the low-life!

Oh yeah? Well 50 Cent is a much better rapper than you, Kanye! So there!

It’s so great how quickly yoou came up with this gag for the week Pab! I’ve never laughed harder!

I’d have a modicum more respect for Kanye if I thought he did have an opinion on Shakespeare vs. Marlowe.

Great week, Pab!

Watch it, Kanye! Old Will is gonna stab you in the eye with a quill if you don’t shut up!

I’d rather listen to KJ-52 (or Dickens) any day. I like Shakespeare’s sonnets, but his plays are either depressing (like Titus Andronicus), or copies of something already in existence (Like Romeo and Juliet).

Librarianintraining, get thee to a library! Elizabethan playwrights freely borrowed characters, plots, and conventions from each another and from older sources; this was not considered a fault. It’s what Shakespeare did with his material, with unsurpassed artistry, and deep insight into the human condition, that we still celebrate and enjoy.

kfaatz925, yeah, what you said.

Loving this week, Pab… just loving it~ some of the best belly laughs I’ve had… thank you!

kfaatz925, I think he’s referring to PHILIP Marlowe (Raymond Chandler’s character), not Christopher Marlowe.

Besides, Chris Marlowe is a red herring. We all know that Francis Bacon actually ghost-wrote all of Shakespeare’s stuff.

(don’t get all serious and pile on me, I’m joking here.)

As far as borrowing charcaters. plots, etc.; It’s nothing that Hollywood isn’t currently doing! Look at all the remakes, movies-of-cartoons, etc. that have come out in the last 20 or so years.

kfaatz925, you hit it on the nail. such a lack in proper classical training these days. Thank goodness for TNAOQV for our daily dose of fun!

LOL!!!

i have no respect whatsoever for kanye west. he seems to have little class, and all of it low. however, his being a jerk made for a funny strip today. thanks, PAB

Mivins, yeah, I know. But I still find Pyramus et Thisbe more tragic and moving than Romeo and Juliet. Don’t ask why. I just do.

I was just emphasizing that I preferred Shakespeare’s poetry to his plays. That’s all.

And if you want a play that looks like a B Horror Flick, read Titus Andronicus considered by most critics to be Shakespeare’s worst.

I love the version of Pyramus and Thisby in Midsummer Night’s Dream!

Can’t bear Titus Andronicus; I’m with you there. And I can’t fault anyone who loves the sonnets. :)