Shekespeare

I actually got a head ache reading this version of Gaimen's - too many random things going on. Though I really liked how he incorporated the view point of the audience into his work, but most of the comic was really disconnected and not a lot of great connections. I thought it was interesting as to what characters he chose to be in the audience that were actually part of the real play.

Gaiman created the audience by using a group of average joe's who loved to act. It is an interesting way of creating such a classic play because readers for centuries have been fantasizing over shakespeare's works but as readers, we never got to see/hear the praise of Shakespeare on his own work so this comic is great. The key player in this comic was obviously Hamnet (hehe)...the mysterious son of Shakespeare (or shekespeare ). As i had metioned earlier, the the choice of audience members were interesting: titania, Auberon, Shakespeares's shadow and the mischievous fairies.

As for Shakespeare's personal life, I thought it was kind of weird or unnecessary. I really can't explain why. Are these facts actually true? Maybe we'll talk about such question during class, today. I guess it was interesting how Hamnet played the little boy that Titania adopted because it kind of symbolizes how he spent a lot of time with his mother and has barely seen his father. Is there a significance behind his name? In all honesty, the boy doesn't really have a substantial role in this comic. But maybe Shakespeare in the audience that he wants to see his long lost son but only from afar.

I really liked the third and fourth panels on pg. 70 - the conversation between the dumb sprite and the smart sprite. This type of conversation goes on throughout the play and i just like it because it reminds of a person or even myself that would talk about a play during the play if i new a lot about the plot...it was the only humor in the story, really.