August 21st, 2013 → 5:52 am @ Lea // No Comments

“O, it
offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to
very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who
for the most part are capable of nothing but
inexplicable dumbshows and noise:  I would have such
a fellow whipped for o’erdoing Termagant; it
out-herods Herod:  pray you, avoid it.”  – Hamlet

A friend of mine turned me onto Thug Notes the other day.  Their tag line:  “Classical Literature.  Original Gangster.”  They make quick five minute videos of classic works of literature, gangster style.  Totally hilarious.  Of course, my favorite is Thug Notes – Hamlet where Laertes warns Ophelia that Hamlet “might just hit it and quit it.”  And the poisoned chalice at the end is “Elizabethan Hator-ade – gotta have it.”  And while it has the potential to go over the top, no worries, it doesn’t. There’s no out-heroding Herod here!