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Author Martin Bodek Has a
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“The Shakespeare Haggadah: Elevate
Thy Seder With the Bard of Avon.”
herefore is this Haggadah
diff’rent from all oth’r
Haggadahs? Author Martin Bodek, the writer
of the “Emoji Haggadah," "Festivus
Haggadah" and
"Coronavirus Haggadah,” has released another
version of the Passover story, trans-
lated fully into Elizabethan English.

“The Shakespeare Haggadah:
Elevate Thy Seder With the Bard of
Avon” retells the traditional tale of the
exodus from Egypt with Hebrew on the
right side and quotes from, and refer-
ences to, William Shakespeare’s plays
on the left. It’s replete with old English
typeface and refers to items on the
seder plate as “the bare-picked bone
of majesty,” “roasted egg in wrath
and fi re” and “the enchanted herbs,”
referencing King John, Hamlet and The
Merchant of Venice, respectively.

“I’ve been a Shakespeare fan all
my life. I had to choose between that
and some other ideas that are very
pop-culture infl ected, but I went up
against all diff erent sorts of copyright
issues,” Bodek said. “Shakespeare has
been dead for 407 years. I think I’m in
the clear.”
Bodek, a self-described pop-cul-
ture afi cionado and literature fan, says
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