Oliver Stone (was:Pauper and Sweatshop Fallacies)

[Michael Bailey]

Joseph Tracy wrote:
> You are right. It's a real funny parody like everything else .  And the funniest part is that some idiots don't get that, but  there is no putting one over on you.


wikipedia sez Shakespeare:
complicates the themes and deepens the psychology of its models. What
is, in The Spanish Tragedy, a straightforward duty of revenge, is for
Prince Hamlet, both factually and morally ambiguous. Hamlet has been
read, with some support, as enacting a thematic conflict between the
Roman values of martial valor and blood-right on the one hand, and
Christian values of humility and acceptance on the other.

here's something with a diagram of the parodic and non-parodic elements:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ThJJP4b21DwC&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=%22hamlet+as+parody+of+revenge+tragedy%22&source=bl&ots=kpvvbV8O64&sig=X4fySP7r0j2KYEw8pxUVrRHYElg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2Cn6UNbfOIHs8gTEkoDoAQ&ved=0CHcQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22hamlet%20as%20parody%20of%20revenge%20tragedy%22&f=false