Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Back to the Beginning: Shakespeare in FoxTrot

Amend, Bill. FoxTrot. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1989.
I've posted FoxTrot comics here for many years, but a recent on-line exchange let me know that I hadn't posted every instance of Shakespeare that I've been able to find in FoxTrot.

This, then, is an attempt to fill that gap, starting from the first published volume and heading on from there. It's not "FoxTrot Week at Bardfilm"—these will come sporadically as I encounter them.

But here are two from Bill Amend's first published volume of FoxTrot comics.

First, a little Hamlet-related joke to open things off.


And then we have a little reference to King Lear:


More to follow!  And thanks, Bill Amend, for all the great Shakespeare in your astonishing comics.
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Bardfilm is normally written as one word, though it can also be found under a search for "Bard Film Blog." Bardfilm is a Shakespeare blog (admittedly, one of many Shakespeare blogs), and it is dedicated to commentary on films (Shakespeare movies, The Shakespeare Movie, Shakespeare on television, Shakespeare at the cinema), plays, and other matter related to Shakespeare (allusions to Shakespeare in pop culture, quotes from Shakespeare in popular culture, quotations that come from Shakespeare, et cetera).

Unless otherwise indicated, quotations from Shakespeare's works are from the following edition:
Shakespeare, William. The Riverside Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Gen. ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
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