Shakespeare plays reimagined as Kardashian dramas
LONDON -- Shakespeare is hella dramatic. If his characters aren't committing coldblooded murder to further their quest for power; they're navigating the tricky terrain of lust and love, with -- at times -- devastating consequences.
In 2016, 400 years on from Shakespeare's death, there's only one family capable of attempting -- nay, emulating -- that scale of drama (not the coldblooded murder, of course). Yes, you guessed it, the Kardashians.
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As an homage to Shakespeare, we gave the Kardashians the Shakespearean roles they were born to play.
A MIDJENNER'S NIGHT DREAM
Kris Jenner tries to make Harry Styles fall in love with Kendall by giving him a love potion, only she accidentally gives the potion to Kanye, and Kanye -- predictably -- falls in love with Kanye.
KYMBELINE
Kim is Queen of England and an ineffectual one at that. North West -- Princess of Britain-- is the only living heir to the throne. North runs off and marries her lowborn sweetheart, Posthumous, and Kim banishes North’s lover to Italy. Meanwhile, some guy called Kloten pursues North. Posthumous is told that North is cheating on him and plots to murder her. North escapes to the woods, and after taking a drug, falls into a deep sleep and is presumed dead by her family. Eventually things work themselves out and North is reunited with Posthumous.
MAKBETH
Kanye is Lady MaKbeth and his quest for his wife to become Queen of EVERYTHING results in him forcing Kim to murder everyone to get to the top. Is this a dagger we see before her? Hell yes it is.
THE TEMP-ER TANTRUM
The Kardashian family are now known only as "Kaliban". Kaliban is being oppressed because of the way it talks. People try to make it speak properly and they just caaaaan't. Kaliban has huge tantrum much like North West did at New York Fashion Week. Anna Wintour is Prospero, the oppressor, who has absolutely no time for Kaliban’s tantrum.
ROBEO AND BLAC-CHYNIET
The melodramatic nightmare that is Rob and Blac Chyna’s love. Kris wants Rob to marry Paris Hilton, but he met and fell in love with Blac Chyna at a LA costume party. They run off, get married, Kris finds out and forces Rob to go live in the desert. Eventually, they both fake their own deaths to cash in the insurance money.
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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
