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Andrew G. Van Camp

is a sophomore at Harvard University studying mathematics and biology. He has played Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet and is the lyricist of Fake Moos: The John Harvard Musica.
Shakespeare travesties, the philosophical and the popular
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Shakespeare and Beyond

Shakespeare travesties, the philosophical and the popular

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Andrew G. Van Camp

There are philosophical travesties, which use absurdity to further explore the ideas Shakespeare raised in his plays. And there are popular travesties, which are substantially less faithful to Shakespeare’s original, trafficking in the most well-known touchstones of the plays. Explore…