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Hamlet, the Facebook News Feed edition

By Nicholas Carlson, 3:40 PM on Wed Aug 6 2008, 1,882 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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We present you Act I of Hamlet, the Facebook News Feed Edition, in its entirety. Click to embiggen. For the full story — including Polonius's riveting status update: "Polonius thinks this curtain looks like a good thing to hide behind," please see McSweeney's.

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