# Shakesperean Sequels
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 31, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194 "2003-07-31T18:57:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/21 "2003-08-01T02:00:57Z")
**Juliet and Juliet** - and her parents objected to Romeo !!!
Shamless product placement in Macbeth Part II
**"Out out, Spam™ dot !!!"**
**Cymbeline II - the disgruntled Shakespearrean character**
Tired of languishing in literary obscurity, Cymbeline vows “People will remember me THIS TIME !!! BWA-HA-HA !!!”
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/22 "2003-08-01T02:01:35Z")
_Henry V, Part II: Just when you thought it was safe to go back to France._
_I Still Know What You Did Last Midsummer’s Night_
And don’t forget the crossover potential:
_Hamlet v. Othello: Brood War_
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### Author:  [@fotosbyfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fotosbyfrank)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/23 "2003-08-01T02:08:08Z")
How about . . .
“Piglet, Son of Hamlet”
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### Author:  [@fotosbyfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fotosbyfrank)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/24 "2003-08-01T02:20:20Z")
Which, in retrospect (after I hit the “submit” button) leads us to . . .
“The Return of Hamlet”
“The Return of the Son of Hamlet”
and, of course,
“Hamlet Meets Abbott and Costello”
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/25 "2003-08-01T02:52:20Z")
Hamlet Meets Abbott and Costello: Act 1, Scene 1:
BERNARDO
Last night of all,
When yond same star that’s westward from the pole
Had made his course to illume that part of heaven
Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
The bell then beating one,–
_Enter Ghost_
MARCELLUS
Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again!
BERNARDO
In the same figure, like the king that’s dead.
MARCELLUS
Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.
HORATIO
Humina humina humina…
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/26 "2003-08-01T03:02:54Z")
Posted by **Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor:**
> [@](#):
>
> The Merry Wives Of Windsor was a sequal.
>
> Shakespeare wrote it himself, at the request of Elizabeth I.
From _An Incomplete Education,_ by Judy Jones and William Wilson (Ballantine Books, 1987), p. 204:
> [@](#):
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> _The Merry Wives of Windsor_–Said to have been written in response to Queen Elizabeth’s request to see Falstaff in love. If so, the monarch got short weight. This is Falstaff bereft of his wit, and he’s not in love, or even in lust, just prodded by vanity and greed. Amiable enough on the whole, however, and the only play in which Shakespeare presents (and defends) the life of his own middle class.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/27 "2003-08-01T06:13:18Z")
“Everyone and Cleopatra”
And, then, of course, if Shakespeare did a Disney tie in
“Pumbaa of Sparta”
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/28 "2003-08-01T12:47:51Z")
Thirteenth Night
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/29 "2003-08-01T12:58:29Z")
Rosencrantz and Gilderstein are Dead, and I Don’t Feell So Good Myself.
Julio & Romiet–On to Spain.
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### Author:  [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/30 "2003-08-01T13:37:46Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Miller \*
> \*\*Hamlet Meets Abbott and Costello: Act 1, Scene 1:
>
> BERNARDO
> Last night of all,
> When yond same star that’s westward from the pole
> Had made his course to illume that part of heaven
> Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
> The bell then beating one,–
>
> . . . \*\*
Bernardo: Who’s there?
Francisco: Yes!
Bernardo: I mean the fellow’s name!
Francisco: Who!
Bernardo: The guy at the gate!
Francisco: Who!
Bernardo: The guy standing there!
Francisco: Who is there!
Bernardo: Now whaddaya askin’ me for?
Francisco: I’m telling you Who’s there!
. . .etc. etc.
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### Author:  [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/31 "2003-08-01T13:53:32Z")
Rosencrantz and Guilderstern: The Forbidden Love
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### Author:  [@Leechboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leechboy)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/32 "2003-08-01T14:28:28Z")
**Fortinbras**
Where a quick to act norwegian prince slaughters everyone with out a second though. Runs 90 minutes without intermission.
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### Author:  [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/33 "2003-08-01T15:44:55Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Wumpus \*
> \*\*Julius Caesar 2: The Empire Strikes Back
> \*\*
Perfect.
And “Piglet, Son of Hamlet” goes on the Disney bill with “Pumbaa of Athens.”
Coriolanus: Reloaded
The Tempest: Unleashed
Anthony & Cleopatra & Ted & Alice
Macbeth II: There Can Only Be One
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/34 "2003-08-01T18:17:05Z")
Hamlet II: First Blood
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/35 "2003-08-01T18:18:42Z")
Henry V, Part III: Die, Falstaff, Die!
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### Author:  [@A\_wizard\_song\_for\_thee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_wizard_song_for_thee)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/36 "2003-08-01T21:16:47Z")
_Titus Andronicus Returns: This Time it’s Personal-er_
_A Tragedy of Errors_- In which two men from out of town, mistaken for their unknown (to them) twins, are brutally slaughtered.
_Love’s Labours Found Under the Chaise Lounge_- Sort of anti-climactic, this one…
_Timon Does Athens_- Finally settling the bisexual question
_Troilus and Juliet and Cleopatra_- An obvious cheap cash-in on the popularity of the originals, Shakespeare could only get three big-name actors to reprise their roles…
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/37 "2003-08-02T04:13:23Z")
**Dizzy Fingers**
ROFL at the Abott & Costello “Hamlet”
* * *
**Tempest II - the Forbidden Planet**
You see, the movie “Forbidden Planet” was based…
yeah yeah we know !!!
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### Author:  [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/38 "2003-08-02T05:52:33Z")
**Nutty and Nuttierer: When Hamlet met Ophelia**
**How to Tame a Shrew in 10 Days**
**Twelfth Night 2: The Island of Lost Dreams**
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/39 "2003-08-02T06:04:05Z")
> [@](#):
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> Old Willy wrote good stuff, but he wasn’t always good at capitalizing on a good idea.
I don’t know about that… he wrote six plays with _Henry_ in the title.
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### Author:  [@BornOfStardust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornOfStardust)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakesperean-sequels/192194/40 "2003-08-02T06:39:42Z")
Ten Things I Hate About Shrews
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