Cimorene

oooh, you must!

i love hamlet--the play--it's not my favorite evah, but i'm not sure i have a favorite. i love hamlet, and r&g is like the best fanfiction imaginable of it, although in a way it's literature in its own right. you should read it, cause there's stuff that won't fit in the movie; but stoppard directed it, and the movie is excellent. gary oldman and tim roth are both terribly, shockingly brilliant, i think. it's a comedy that puts a lump in your throat, and makes you ache for them! and it's slashy.

it's hysterically funny, but it's sort of wistful and serious--poignant--at the same time. and i don't know if you like or dislike meta, but it's rather meta. you know, what is literature? and what are secondary characters doing when they're not on stage? since shakespeare writes his disposable characters with a wink and nod at the audience it's a particularly good place for doing that. there's a point where one of them talks about how they exist just to play their parts--not in those words exactly.

(i've never seen or read twelfth night--even though it's my mom's favorite! so perhaps we're even.)