Book Adaptions

Cool books to adapt to modern settings:

• Pride And Prejudice
• The Way We Live Now
• Persuasion
• Emma
• Great Expectations
• The Great Gatsby-
• To Kill A Mockingbird- Be interesting with Arabs or Muslims.
• Romeo and Juliet
• Hamlet-

1. Rose & Stern.
2. And instead of Hamlet being a prince, he should be the son of a wealth man, whose brother kills him for his money and his wife.
3. Claudius is Hamlets uncle. Gertrude is Hamlets mom and Claudius's wife after the King dies.
4. Polonius, Laertes and Ophelia's father.
5. Horatio is Hamlets friend.
6. Fortinbras is Hamlets fathers enemy. Fortinbras father was killed by Hamlets father.
7. Bernard and Reynald are soldiers. So is Fransisco, Marcus, and Cornelius.

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Opening: "To be, or not to be, aye there's the point,
To die, to sleep, is that all? Aye all:
No, to sleep, to dream, aye marry there it goes,
For in that dream of death, when we awake,
And borne before an everlasting judge,
From whence no passenger ever returned,
The undiscovered country, at whose sight
The happy smile, and the accursed damned.
But for this, the joyful hope of this,
Who'd bear the scorns and flattery of the world,
Scorned by the right rich, the rich cursed of the poor?
The widow being oppressed, the orphan wronged,
The taste of hunger, or a tyrants reign,
And thousand more calamities besides,
To grunt and sweat under this weary life,
When that he may his full Quietus make,
With a bare bodkin, who would this endure,
But for a hope something after death?
Which puzzles the brain, and doth confound the sense,
Which makes us rather bear those evils we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of.
Ay that, oh this conscience makes cowards of us all,
be all my sins remembered."-Hamlet

"What the hell are you doing this is private property! Get off of here have some respect for the dead!"-Fransisco, the graveyard caretaker.

"I was just practicing Fransisco! The play cannot start without me! For all the worlds a stage and I am but an actor, upon it!"-Hamlet

"The day your an actor, I'll be a king!"-Fransisco

Hamlet stumbles away from the graveyard drunk, he pauses when he see's a skull sitting on a lampost:

"Poor Yorick! I knew him well!"

Hamlet continues stumbling down the dark road, he keeps walking, wine dripping from his cup, until he stops and watches a light approach.

Ophelia is walking towards Hamlet, wearing a nightgown and holding a candle in front of her.

"The first Nymph! Ophelia! In my horisons."-Hamlet

"Thank you Sir, How do you feel today?"-Ophelia

"I feel well, and thank you...." A little sarcastic bow, spilling his drink on the floor.

"My lord, I have remembrances of you, That I have longed you to return; I pray you, now accept them."-Ophelia

"No, not I; I never gave you a chance."-Hamlet

"My beloved lord, you know right well you did and, with them, words of so sweet breath charmed me
You made the things more rich: their meaning lost, Take these again; for to the noble mind
Rich gifts poor when givers prove unkind. There, my lord."-