Abstract
This study aims to analyze a 2008 American comedy film which is one of the most unfaithful and subversive revisions of Shakespeare's Hamlet. In this film directed by Andrew Fleming, a recovering alcoholic failed actor and high school drama teacher, Dana Marschz writes and produces a sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. His comic rock musical Hamlet2 features time travel to avoid the deaths of the characters and more controversial content including the introduction of moonwalking sexy Jesus, bi-curious Laertes, and a local gay men's chorus. It ends with both Hamlet and Jesus forgiving their fathers for the wrongs done to them. Due to this controversial content and mangling of the original play, this sequel evokes sharp protests and threats from teachers, parents and Christians. In this film Shakespeare's Hamlet represents a site of cultural and social struggle and change in which political stances, modes of relationship, and gender identity are formed and negotiated. With its happy ending where Dana' sequel gradually wins the audience over and waits for Broadway opening, disrupts the institutional authority of high culture Shakespeare and offers a rebellious and anti-establishment fantasy for losers.
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