''The Skinhead Hamlet'' is a short 1981
parody of the play ''
Hamlet'' by
Richard Curtis, a co-author of ''
Blackadder
''Blackadder'' is a series of four period British sitcoms, plus several one-off instalments, which originally aired on BBC One from 1983 to 1989. All television episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as the antihero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robins ...
''.
According to the editor's note, the play is intended "to achieve something like the effect of the ''
New English Bible''".
See also
*
Skinhead
*''
Hamlet''
*
Oulipo
*
Harry Mathews
References
External links
The script
Skinhead
Plays and musicals based on Hamlet
1981 plays
Parodies of literature
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