Shakespeare for Squirrels
Shakespeare for Squirrels – Christopher Moore
Practical Demon Keeping — and that’s where the story starts. West Texas. Buddy who is a palm reader, he looked at me, suggested that title. So I started collecting the author’s copious canon of work, and found it odd, and oddly entertaining, over the past two, almost three decades.
“I know, lamb, love is a besquished toad ripening in the sun.” Chapter 4.
Shakespeare for Squirrels – Christopher Moore combines Shakespeare’s Midsummer’s Night’s Eve with raucous language.
- As an aside, connected to nothing, the Hogarth Shakespeare project has done such wonderful bits with Shakespeare plays, really, this material should be considered of the same ilk, only, with a lot more artful swearing.
I was less than enamored of the first two, and I was slow to get around to this one, but Midsummer is such a fun play, and I was listening to podcasts again, just in the last months, since that play was originally on the summer schedule so the play was foremost in my mind. Then again, the novel is one that might be “loosely based on” Midsummer Night’s Eve.
A little quick and easy with stealing lines from plays, that was The Tempest, then Much Ado, and isn’t that from Measure for Measure, too? Hamlet.
Even though I have this as a hardback, finding this author’s works imminently reread-able and deserving of hardback in my library, I was reading an electronic version, which was even more enjoyable. I would happen on a familiar phrase, and pop over to my copy of the ubiquitous Shakespeare Pro app. Having a bit of go with funny scholarship, if that’s what it is.
Running gag, Henry IV, pt. 2,
or so rumor has it?
Romeo and Juliette, tragic.
It’s a fun romp as any, through an author’s vivid imagination, and that only tangentially has anything to do with the play. As much fun as anything else is the afterward, along with a successful completion of the story.
