There was the bully, standing on the top of the roof with a barrel full of water balloons. He was trying to boss around his classmates below him by dropping the water balloons on their heads. Every balloon he threw got closer and closer to his classmates. Eventually, after not listening to him for a while, him took a big one, and dropped it right on a girl’s head. She immediately reacted and started yelling at him. Once she stopped yelling, the bully just looked at her and said, “The lady doth protest to much me thinks.” The bully, from the cartoon show My Dad is a Rock Star made it seem as if he had some sort of knowledge by saying a variation of a quote from Hamlet.
A perfect example of an allusion to Hamlet can be seen in My Dad is a Rock Star. There are many different TV shows and movies which allude to Shakespeare’s plays, mainly because most his plays are so amazing. The cultural significance of Hamlet has definitely changed over time. When originally performed, the plays......
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