Hello, Hello!
If you are clicking on "Anything Goes….Maybe" for the first time, a brief word before the story begins in its insane glory. I did not come up with the premise of this story. It came from a "Conspiracy Theory" I read on the internet. I originally thought it was the most ridiculous thing I had ever read, and that whoever came up with the idea must have just had tea with Mothman. After a while, though, I found it pretty funny. My friend suggested I write a fanfic out of it, "for the lulz". And thus was the origin of this story.
Many of the events in the play Hamlet are left out or in the wrong place. Say goodbye to the Ghost, "To be or not to be" and the closet scene. And many of the characters may seem a bit different. This is intentional. While "avenging a murder" was commonplace and acceptable in Shakespeare's day, it is not the norm or, for that matter, legal today so I highly doubt that the first thing to pop to a 21st century Hamlet's mind would be "avenge!" I've spent enough evenings reading the play enough, watched enough of the movies, and read commentaries in varying degrees of useless enough that I don't need an exact translation. In my mind, that defeats the point of fanfiction. If you want something perfectly in cannon, go read the original. Fanfiction is a realm all to its own where we can take our favorite characters, make them jump through hoops and laugh at their misfortunes.
KatzchenHexe
