Games People Play: Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens and I invented the word games below. All additional titles welcomed. I’ll add more if I remember them. (There were more.)

The Plays of William Shakespeare re-titled in the manner of the novels of Robert Ludlum

The Elsinore Vacillation (Hamlet)

The Handkerchief Deception (Othello)

The Rialto Sanction (The Merchant of Venice)

The Cordelia Conundrum (King Lear)

The Capulet Balcony (Romeo and Juliet)

The Dunsinane Afforestation (Macbeth)

Titles That Don’t Quite Make It

Mr Zhivago

Mrs Bovary

Toby Dick

A Farewell to Weapons

For Whom the Bell Rings

The Old Man and the Pond

The Catcher in the Wheat

Hitch-22 (Christopher ended up making this the actual title of his memoir)

Elderberry Finn

To Kill a Hummingbird

Lord of the Fries

The Story of the Forsytes

Withering Heights

Middlemay

Song of Sulaiman

Two days in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

The Godmother

Bonnie and Clive

East Side Story