Emmzee
April 25th, 2008, 03:25 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/24/nshakespeare124.xml
Generations of schoolchildren have complained of the inaccessibility of Shakespeare's classic works.However, with the help of a British satirist, the Ali G generation will have no trouble relating to Hamlet's woes when they read: "Dere was somefing minging in de State of Denmark."
In Martin Baum's updated version of 15 of Shakespeare's classic plays in "yoof speak", the Danish prince, who is re-named 'Amlet, asks: "To be or not to be, innit?", and Romeo pines for his "fit bitch Jools".
Generations of schoolchildren have complained of the inaccessibility of Shakespeare's classic works.However, with the help of a British satirist, the Ali G generation will have no trouble relating to Hamlet's woes when they read: "Dere was somefing minging in de State of Denmark."
In Martin Baum's updated version of 15 of Shakespeare's classic plays in "yoof speak", the Danish prince, who is re-named 'Amlet, asks: "To be or not to be, innit?", and Romeo pines for his "fit bitch Jools".