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“Nay, but to live/In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed/Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love/Over the nasty sty –”
Hamlet Act Three, Part Four By Dennis Abrams ——————————– Let’s talk some more about Ophelia. And about Gertrude. As I think we’ve seen so far, Hamlet’s tragedy is not exclusively, as Schlegel thought, a tragedy of thought. It’s not even … Continue reading
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“Our wills and fates do so contrary run/That our devices are overthrown:/Our thoughts our ours, their ends none of our own.”
Hamlet Act Three, Part Three By Dennis Abrams I found this description of Hamlet (the man, not the play, although he’s really a character in a play, but you know what I mean), in Mark Van Doren’s Shakespeare that I … Continue reading
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“I doubt it is no other but the main –/His father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage.”
Hamlet Act Two, Part Three By Dennis Abrams ——————————————- I want to start by going back to Marjorie Garber discussing Hamlet and delay, if only because it gives me an excuse to post a really amazing film clip: “Another Victorian … Continue reading
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“Murder most foul, as in the best it is,/But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.”
Hamlet Act One, Part Five By Dennis Abrams ——————————– This is going to be my last post on Act One. I’m going to take a day off tomorrow, and my next post will be Sunday evening/Monday morning (depending on what … Continue reading
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“To kill old Hamlet in the garden, with poison in the ears.”
Hamlet Act One, Part Four By Dennis Abrams ——————————— As we work our way through Hamlet, and through some of my favorite critical essays (whether or not I agree with them or not), I thought it might be useful to … Continue reading
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“Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,/Th’imperial jointress to this warlike state,”
Hamlet Act One, Part Three By Dennis Abrams —————————————- I am struck as I read (and reread) Hamlet, just how far Shakespeare had come as a writer, in such a relatively short period of time. Keep in mind that, assuming … Continue reading
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“But I have that within which passeth show – /These but the trappings and the suits of woe.”
Hamlet Act One, Part Two By Dennis Abrams ——————————– First off…how’s everybody doing? Any questions? Problems? Revelations? I’d like to touch on something that I’ve been pondering ever since I started this project – how is it that we can … Continue reading
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“O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,/Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew…”
Hamlet Act One, Part One By Dennis Abrams ———————————— MAJOR CHARACTERS Prince Hamlet of Denmark, son of King Hamlet and Gertrude Horatio, a student friend of Hamlet Ghost of King Hamlet Gertrude, King Hamlet’s widow and Claudius’s wife Polonius, a … Continue reading
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The Play's The Thing 