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🦋 Huckleberry Finn Intertextuality

Sylvia comments that the King and the Duke's plan to perform a Shakespearean exhibition (featuring the balcony scene, with the King as Juliet, and the sword fight from Richard III, and the King doing Hamlet's soliloquy) reminds her a lot of Moominsummer Madness. And I think she's on to something; Jansson could very well be referring directly to this scene. That's assuming Huckleberry Finn was translated and available in Finland in the early 20th C., which seems to me like a reasonable assumption.

An interesting moment was explaining to Sylvia why it would probably not be a good idea to read Huckleberry Finn out loud while we were on the airplane flying to California.

posted evening of Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
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cool thanks!this helps with my english homework!

posted evening of October 11th, 2012 by Catherine

THANK YOU

posted evening of October 11th, 2012 by shabalabadingdong

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