The Great Shakespearean Adventure: Hamlet

[cesario]

Well, after exhaustive market-testing and subject research, I have struck upon a way to present my Shakespearean forays to the blogosphere. I found a copy of the play online and I'm cutting and pasting lines I've got something to say about

Comments

[lareinenoire]

This is priceless. Reading you reading Hamlet is so much better than my last experience reading Hamlet on my own. And I must own up to a crush on Claudius too.

By the way, why is there no gloriously screwed-up Hamlet/Claudius fic out there? I'm sick of all the whiny Hamlet/Horatio.

[rj_anderson]

So you get a passport, see, and then you come here, by bus or by train or by plane or by hook or by crook, and then I TAKE YOU TO SEE SHAKESPEARE DONE LIVE. For reals.

Though it's too bad you missed Paul Gross in Hamlet, or Christopher Plummer as King Lear. Maybe they will come back?

(Ooh, mind you, this year we get Geraint Wyn-Davies as Polonius!)

[bit_of_muslin]

Almost totally unrelated....

Nicholas Farrell keeps showing up in random movies I watch...Driving Lessons and Amazing Grace most recently. But My first thought is 'OMG! It's Edmund! (from the 1983 BBC Mansfield Park) because that's just how I roll ;)

[angevin2]

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, HORATIO? No, seriously, what. Why are you just a piece of yourself?

I think it's an innuendo and should be accompanied in performance with a pelvic thrust. ;)

[silent_sybil]

There is merit in your suggestion.

[chriself]

Great idea! You've made me want to pick up and reread Hamlet just to see if my opinion agrees with yours.

You said...Being me in a Shakespeare class is hazardous to mental health. I was consistently the only person my professor agreed with, and this pissed off the students who were used to getting A's in high school so much they deliberately spread a rumor I was getting my A's by screwing the professor, and I wound up getting kicked out of my dorm. Trufax

I had a similar experience when I was the only Catholic in the class studying Dante's Inferno. Some referneces are only funny/make sense when you know the history behind them. I truly looked like a brown noser and sparked no end of resentment. Thankfully without the getting kicked out of my dorm.:)

[cesario]

You have to get Christianity to get Dante, there is no two ways about that. People are dumb. :-)