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Here's Shakespeare simplified by quotes from Parks and Recreation

Pop culture 20 July 2018
Alison Sloan (@alisonlsloan) made Elizabethan literature more accessible one Parks and Recreation still at a time.

Every Shakespeare Play Summed Up in a Quote from Parks and Recreation: A Thread

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All's Well That Ends Well

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Antony and Cleopatra

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Comedy of Errors

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Henry IV, Part I

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Henry IV, Part II

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Henry VI, Part I

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Henry VI, Part II

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Henry VI, Part III

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Love's Labours Lost

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Measure for Measure

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

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The Merchant of Venice

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Much Ado About Nothing

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre

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Romeo and Juliet (Prologue)

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Romeo and Juliet (The Rest)

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Taming of the Shrew

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Titus Andronicus

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Troilus and Cressida

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Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Winter's Tale (exit, pursued by a bear)

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I don't know if you can win an award for a Twitter thread, but if you can, this thread should win it.

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