I'll have to read Hamlet in Purgatory, but offhand I'd have to dispute this as the reason she doesn't see the ghost. Hamlet has just been shoving a picture of Claudius in her face, precipitating a...
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I'll have to read Hamlet in Purgatory, but offhand I'd have to dispute this as the reason she doesn't see the ghost. Hamlet has just been shoving a picture of Claudius in her face, precipitating a...
The lightness with which Shakespeare's characters call for death has always baffled me. At some point I simply have to chalk it up to the times. Another example is in Much Ado About Nothing. "Kill...
Not necessarily. I think Gertrude may be utterly seduced, entranced and thrilled to be doing something a little bit bad after her many years of wifely fealty. John Updike had another idea, which he...
The glories of the internet. Lounging into a conversation after about a year.
Well, I can't stand that noisy, crammed, overproduced Branagh version. And Basil Sydney (Olivier's Claudius) is just...
Ugh, he's becoming less attractive to me all the time. I'm okay with Keats's Ode on Melancholy -- "beauty that must die" -- but beauty that relishes its imminent death? Ugh ugh ugh.
It is steeped in antic and death.
Wait, what the heck did I just write?
What I meant to say was, why does Hamlet become so fatalistic? Is he tired of fighting?
Why does Hamlet change?
When he makes this remark, he is fresh off successfully out-scheming Claudius and saving his own skin with an elaborate ruse. It's true he's also been overthinking things...
Hang it all, I found a complete version of Richard Burton's "Electronovision" performance online and now I've lost it!!!! Thought I'd bookmarked it but . . . Can anyone help?
ETA:
Never mind --...
Ha, it may be a while before I ever see an answer here, but I'll throw out the question anyway:
In Act I scene iii, Falstaff orders Nym and Pistol each to take some phony love letters to...
Oop, just found the Nicol Williamson one online, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN0y2OAesYE&feature=related
A leisurely break from a drama to explain a character's motivation or an obscure plot point or whatever is a soft spot, a moment of poor craftsmanship. Every line should advance the plot, reveal...
Act II, scene 2, lines 163-208
You know, that scene full of babbling lunacy -- the sun breeds maggots in a dead dog, words words words, a crab going backwards, etc.
This is what I can see:
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Thanks for adding to the discussion, Jim! And to my everlasting confoundedness.
Thank you, Charles, for the thorough answer. I think I'm getting a better sense of the Ghost's motives and the limitations imposed on him by the otherworld.
The ghost says "SWEAR" -- to Marcellus and Horatio, insisting they keep its existence secret.
Never to speak of this that you have seen.
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Never to speak of this that you have heard.
......
I've never really seen it explicated, but it contains a few mysteries for me.
High and mighty,
You shall know I am set naked on your kingdom. Tomorrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes,...
Yikes, when I read
Moderate thy tone, lest thy watch anon be like fallen dove by ants beswarmed
it was like screeching brakes.
Hey, Arcadian
The comedy doesn't seem too radical a shift to me, especially since I watched David Tennant as Hamlet and saw that the play is potentially steeped in antic (and death). The Osric...
Aye, there's the rub.
So I was reading Samuel Johnson's notes on Hamlet last night and saw something that never occurred to me. (Of course it doesn't have to be right, but it got me thinking.) He says that Hamlet might...
I'll jump in.
A few other Hamlets available for rent or sale are:
the Russian one http://www.amazon.com/Hamlet-Mr-Bongo-Films-DVD/dp/B005FXO5XA/ref=pd_cp_mov_0
the Campbell Scott one...
Act 3 scene iv, lines 207 ff
Hamlet kills Polonius in Gertrude's room and reminds her that he has to go to England. He willingly heads for the ship with a pair of friends whom he considers no...
Interesting twist Shakespeare put on the genre, creating a son who is too contemplative for his role. I had thought Hamlet's One Big obstacle to killing Claudius was his fear that the ghost wasn't...
Okay, so there's no easy answer that I'm missing. I do have trouble with Shakespeare's "mad" characters anyway. I've seen a few homeless people wandering around babbling like loons, but I usually...