Polonius is no longer online

I’ve always been very vocal about my feelings towards Facebook even at times when I’ve been in danger of adopting the Kevin “I never knew fear until I kissed Becky” McCarthy plan of running into oncoming traffic. But I did enjoy the Facebook News Feed Edition of Hamlet by Sarah Schmelling:

Polonius says Hamlet’s crazy … crazy in love!

Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet are now friends.

Hamlet wonders if he should continue to exist. Or not.

Hamlet thinks Ophelia might be happier in a convent.

Ophelia removed “moody princes” from her interests.

Hamlet posted an event: A Play That’s Totally Fictional and In No Way About My Family

The king commented on Hamlet’s play: “What is wrong with you?”

Polonius thinks this curtain looks like a good thing to hide behind.

Polonius is no longer online.

Looking for a David Warner as Hamlet pic lead me to the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project. Man, I love the Internet. So now we have Philip as Hamlet and a bonus link to Canadian Shakespeareans in Space which has this revealing quote from the original Adama, Lorne Greene, about his role in Bonanza:

“They told me that they wanted a new series, a one-hour weekly western. They wanted it to have a strong father-and-son relationship because they were concerned that American soldiers’ defections in Korea had been traced by some psychologists to Momism, the strong identity of U.S. kids with their mothers. Also, they were sick of American movies in which fathers were depicted as bumbling dolts.”

You learn something new every day. Or to put it another way: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio…