Someone over at the SparkNotes community (remember SparkNotes? Thanks for helping me pass English without finishing Villette!) came up with the brilliant idea of summarising every Shakespeare play using a quote from The Office (US), and it’s perfection.
Here’s Michael Scott representing both major roles in Romeo and Juliet:
And Michael as King Lear himself:
This argument between Pam and Michael works well as a summary of Hamlet:
This otherwise random line from Catherine Tate’s Nellie is given new meaning thanks to A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
And Dwight’s weird business arrangement with Angela provides us with summaries for not one, but two Shakespeare plays, All’s Well That Ends Well and Henry VIII:
One of my favourite episode endings is the perfect metaphor for Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare’s bloodiest play:
And finally, this reference made me realise just how much Michael Scott and Julius Caesar have in common:
