Here at Bardfilm, we try to keep our finger on the pulse of Bill Amend's FoxTrot.
And our finger is particularly sensitive when it comes to Shakespeare in FoxTrot.
Ah, whom are we kidding?
I just like to read the Sunday FoxTrots online; I also take almost any opportunity to talk about Shakespeare.
In today's strip, Andy is grilling Paige about her homework. "Where's the Shakespeare?" I hear you ask. Well, it's in the English paper that Paige has only just begun, naturally!
Links: The Comic at Foxtrot.com.
I'm inferring that the paper is on Shakespeare because of the longstanding tradition of the Fox kids' educational expectations. From personal experience, I'm inferring that the two sentences Paige has "written" for her essay are "Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand?" and "Come, let me clutch thee."
[Paige has unwisely chosen to begin her essay with a quotation rather than seizing that important opening for herself with her own words.]
These Shakespearean layers add much to the humor of today's FoxTrot comic. Here at Bardfilm, we look forward to even more. Keep the Shakespeare allusions and quotations and references coming, Mr. Amend!
Links: The Comic at Foxtrot.com.
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