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The NEW Richard III
By andybyers
29 August 2007
The old classics of the English language need to be brought up to date for today's youth, with more action, more confrontation, more edge!  Here's a sample of Richard III, written to make it hip and cool for today's young people...

Wink

           INT. A MEAD HALL IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

          The merry court of HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND.

          Enter LORD STANLEY and RICHARD III.

                              LORD STANLEY
                         (introducing RICHARD III)
                    Your Majesty, the Pretender.

                              RICHARD III
                    How wrong thou speakest, assface.

                              HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND
                    What seekest thou, bag of douche?

                              RICHARD III
                    Forsooth, thou who wouldst of thine
                    own father a cuckold make, I thence
                    me here to rap.

                              HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND
                    First mindest thy tongue, then on
                    with it gettest.

                              RICHARD III
                    Thou art, and no mistake, a man
                    possessed of not one asshole, but a
                    multitude thereof; and moreover,
                    grapevines have it that they each
                    and every one abetteth thee in
                    thine interloping of my 'hood.

                              EARL OF OXFORD
                    What of it, dung-addled?

                              HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND
                    Hold!  He speaketh unto me.

                              RICHARD III
                    Aye, and verily too.  Indeed,
                    methinks thou wouldst pretend,
                    presume, pre-empt thyself — and
                    this company of those who do most
                    assuredly sup upon John Thomases —
                    unto my very crib!

                              HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND
                    Enough!

          He advanceth upon RICHARD III.

                              HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND (CONT'D.)
                         (reciting, as if a spell)
                    A cap in thine ass shall poppèd be,
                    when next we meet, and worried be
                    thine underlings, to see thee fall,
                    who hail from Sodom, one and all.
                    With glee shall I unbloom thy rose,
                    and unto me collect thy hos.
                    So mark me well! and bide thy time!
                    till by me rendered bones and slime.

                    Begone!

                              RICHARD III
                    Be thou fed upon dung!  I am away.

          Exit RICHARD.

                              LORD STANLEY
                    Alas, we are diss'd!

                              EARL OF OXFORD
                    What for this, o my king?  Surely
                    we will not suffer yon sorry man
                    bitch-issued, wherewithal he hath
                    said, to get away?

                              HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND
                    Nay, fear not; I spake not in haste
                    nor jest; neither took I the piss.
                    This very night shall his ass be
                    kickèd, and up shall his shit be
                    fuck'd, by this manly host here
                    about me.

          ALL cheer.

                              HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND
                    To arms, dear friends!  Let ye the
                    locking and also unto it the
                    loading be done!  Mount up, and
                    gallop by vile Richard's posse, and
                    by so doing shall we waste him and
                    those thereabout, and be thus
                    avenged!  To arms!

          Exeunt, ALL cheering.

                                           HERE ENDETH THE SCENE.



Reviews

Written by Phil (6688 comments posted) 31st August 2007
Gadzooks man - what have you done? Do they actually get round to the buggery then? Not sure the RSC would stand (ha) for that. 
 
You have to remember, all kings of England, fictionalised or not, are inbred simpletons who couldn't find their own arse if it was labelled. 
 
Enjoyed. 
 
Phil

Written by coosh (854 comments posted) 1st September 2007
Enjoyed this as well. All part of rewriting Shakespeare - we've had Romeo & Juliet as Celtic-Rangers, MacBeth set in Stratford during the 2012 Olympics... maybe you should submit this as part of the school curriculum.

Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3331 comments posted) 1st September 2007
First I have to disagee with Phil about the monarchs. They are a canny bunch and do one thing supremely well ; they survive and continue. 
It's all they do, and they do it perfectly. They'll outlast the lot of us whether we love or hate them. They'd survive a nulcear attack, them and the rats! 
Well not being young or cool I stuggled with this. I was going to pretend is was "well cool" [even typing it feels wrong!!] who am I kidding. 
I do like the way you play it fairly straight and then drop in the street talk. It works well. I really liked the contrast. I do wonder how long you could keep it going before it got a bit repetitious, but that excerpt was spot on 
cheers 
Jane

Written by jimbo (83 comments posted) 11th September 2007
Being neither hip, cool nor young, so my children say anyway, I still laughed out loud: 
 
'— and this company of those who do most assuredly sup upon John Thomases —' 
 
Although, my grand-daughter enjoys my sense of humour! I think perhaps humour - well-delivered - will hit the target no matter the age group.  
This was well delivered and well written. Thank you for sharing. 
Cheers. 
 
Jim
LMFAO!
Written by Dark_Angel (53 comments posted) 18th September 2007
Good god! When I first looked at it, I debated on closing the window, but for some reason, I read a few lines... then got completely sucked in! 
 
It was... amazingly hilarious. It's like a mad-lib gone bad... I loved it!

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