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Beer In Ads #2052: Hamlet Tries Schlitz

October 3, 2016 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is for Schlitz, from the early 1900s. This was from a series of advertising cards that would have been handed out to people, sort of like baseball cards, with a series usually tied together by some theme. In this ad, showing a scene from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” specifically Act I, Scene II, the script has been altered ever so slightly to include this line, said to Hamlet by the king. “And try, Schlitz Milwaukee Beer.” I certainly don’t remember that line from the original. Maybe I’ve been seeing the wrong version all these years.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, History, Literature, Schlitz



Comments

  1. Miles Jordan says

    October 4, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    Such over-weening pride on display here. Hilarious!!!

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