Shakespeare in FoxTrot's Pass the Loot

Amend, Bill. Pass the Loot. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1990.

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And so we continue on our quest to document the uses Bill Amend has made of Shakespeare in his brilliant and long-lived FoxTrot.

In his second published volume, we get a little more engagement with Shakespeare. But it doesn't happen right away.

First, we get a mere reference to Macbeth being part of a homework assignment:

That's not much. But we soon get a week-long series about Paige's engagement with Antony and Cleopatra.

The week's worth of Antony and Cleopatra is capped with a Sunday where Paige emerges herself in the role of Cleopatra.   

It's all great fun. Whenever Shakespeare shows up in FoxTrot, I have the same excitement Mrs. Fox has when she learns Paige is reading Shakespeare:

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