Need information on pTerry's literary parodies please...
I loved 'Wyrd Sister' and laughed hysterically on every page. I still can't imagine anybody reading it without having read 'Macbeth' ,'Julius Caesar' 'Antony and Cleopatra' before. However I haven't read any thing like that after wyrd sisters. Ok lords and ladies made use of A midsummer night's dream but to a very little extant. I shall be grateful if somebody would suggest any Shakespearean Parody by pTerry.
robcraine Out of mind, be back... sometime
(2/2/03 4:15 pm) Reply
Re: Need information on pTerry's literary parodies please...
Well, I've never read A&C, and only a bit of JC and I think I coped without it (although I did play Macbeth at school). I'm sorry to disappoint you, but there is certainly no book which takes as much from Shakespere as Wyrd Sisters, or even Lords and Ladies. There are a few references in other books (and I've probably missed most of them, as the only other Shakespere I've looked at in any detail is R&J), but not the sort of thing you're looking for.
On the other hand, Eric is a take on Faust, Masquerade shares a fair amount with The Phantom of the Opera and.... well, Terry's books are packed with literary references, from a wide range of sources. My advice would be to explore them yourself.
rob, pointing anyone who's interested at lspace.org for loads more specific information
OI! don't belittle Lords And Ladies!
I think L&L may have more in common with AMND than you suspect.. O'course, that might just be because I was *in* a performance of Midsummer Nights just before I read it for the first time, so I noticed *everything* (I was thisbe, in case anyone cares.. the one in the dress?)
The Broken Drum (quietly confirming rumors of publicly cross-dressing)
Re: OI! don't belittle Lords And Ladies!
Why were you Thisbe?
(since I don't know what you look like it's hard to picture it,....but I'm still laughing )
There's nothing wrong with cross-dressing.
Ceramicgorgon
squirel52 Out of mind, be back... sometime
(2/10/03 3:14 am) Reply
the drum in action
u wanna be able to image shane in a dress.....here's my best shot (trust me, be scared )
can u remember "tim" from the MP & the holy grail?
well, imagine him 2 weeks after he last shaved, maybe without the rams horn helmet, and then cross the image with that of a yeti (albeit a short haired one) and then superimpose a green semiflowing dressnot quite long enough, a overly compensated falseto voice, and an incredibly scary photo of him holding hands with the other lead, pyramus, and this incredibly hairy wrist, that just SHOULD NOT BE.
add in the long blonde wig, and the intentional bad acting, and u have 1 hilarious picture
did i mention he was taller (6' 2", like me) than the lead male, and the wall he was meant to be talking through?
i think the only way it could have been funnier, was if he had glasses.
this has probably only confused u more, and shane's gonna KILL me when he reads this, but i think it is work it, just to get the message out there.
as soon as i get some photo's on my comp, i'll chuck 'em online for u guys to laugh at
p.s. there's nothing wrong with girls cross dressing, they do it in one form or the other all the time.
when guys cross dress, it is REALLY obvious.
p.p.s. i don't know of any really obviously parodied TP books, sorry
Re: the drum in action
*Giggle, giggle, gafaw....gasp* He he! Wow. That's one heck of a picture. I don't know if I can picture Tim without the horns though... But my question still is ...WHY?
Just wondering
Well, I hope you'll survive his wrath
Ceramicgorgon *still laughing and clawing at the spiny chair to keep from falling off in the middle of the school library.. oh..shhhhh...sorry* People are looking at me..
Commandress of the City Watch
(2/23/03 9:18 pm) Reply
Re: *Giggle, giggle, gafaw....gasp*
Wow...so here is the description I have heard so much about! *snort* I echo...wherefore? I want pictures! Lisa--whatever happened to our pics of Death of Rats?
Mrs Grim
Take me apart, take me apart,
You must be off your head,
And if you try to take me apart to get me there,
I'll stay right here in bed.
--The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
Re: Need information on pTerry's literary parodies please...
Hmmm... can't think of any other shakespeare ones, but as already mentioned there are loads of other comparisons to be made. Personally I'd like to add Small Gods to the list, there are so many tiny links to the gospels, but like with most of them you really have to have read them thoroughly to notice it.
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