Dramatis Personae
You know, all these drawings would make one heck of a play.
There’s something about British writers. Probably it has something to do with the guilt that comes from class warfare, or the desire to be famous while still keeping in touch with one’s roots. John Lennon could have bought the moon and yet he wrote about the working class. James Joyce was stupidly educated and yet he poured his inscrutable intellect into a protagonist as Joe Average as one in a Bob Seger song. And then there’s the greatest writer in the U.K.’s history, writing in some inscrutable poetic style, who still has the chestnuts to use Exit, Pursued By A Bear as a stage direction.
If you can get past the flowery language, the heart of Bill S. is the same good ol’ boy nonsense we’re force-fed on a nightly basis. How far is Two And A Half Men from the ideas of The Taming Of The Shrew? Or what about The Comedy Of Errors which has more easily avoided mishaps than a whole season of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air?
Say what you will about how the Bard is “high art” but if he were alive today, he almost certainly would have been writing Transformers IV: The Rise Of Bottom.
Display this poster: during office hours. Then you’ll be known as the T.A. with that cool poster.
Don’t display this poster: if you don’t have enough nails. Also, don’t display this poster if you don’t know what that nail thing is all about. It will just be frontin’ if you do.
This poster tells the world: “Oh, yeah? Well, what about… Zymbeline?”
It takes a while to clean up the ring after a face-off like this, so be aware all Poe vs Shakespeare items will not ship until February 15th.
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Poster Specs
- 16” x 20” (Printed Area is 15” x 19”)
- 8mil lustre PDQ/Siena paper with 8 Color Ultrachrome Epson inks (8mil is equivalent to about 90# cover stock)
