[Lexicog] Yoof speak guide to Shakespeare

[Fritz Goerling]

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?" 

 

The  <http://www.yoofspeak.net/> official site for these new versions of the
Shakespeare's classics.




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