Hamlet: Act 2, Scene II, Part Two

[cesario]

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First Act:
Scene I: The Crazy Occult Forays of Marcellus and Horatio.
Scene II: Claudius is the villain, but he's still hotter than you.
Scene III: Ophelia's virginity is a national treasure. Just ask her dad and brother.
Scene IV: That a ghoooooooooost?
Scene V: "'Who's your daddy?' Now that's just inappropriate."

Second Act:
Act

Comments

[angevin2]

You're going to judge whether or not Claudius is really guilty by whether or not he gets a funny look on his face while watching the play? How do you know it's not just because he has to visit Ye Royal Danish Chamberpot? In any case, the play you're putting on for him is clearly an accusation designed to embarrass Claudius, and whether he was guilty or not, he'd be bound to react to it.

First of all: hee, Royal Danish Chamberpot. (I am six.)

Second: Also, you might want to have a little look at the script and have them revise that "nephew to the king" line, while you're sticking things into it. It's probably going to give Claudius the wrong idea, and by wrong idea, I mean right idea.

Third, and this is the bit that's actually substantial: the dodginess of Hamlet's use of the play as a tool for obtaining proof of Claudius' guilt gets at that crisis of interpretation the play keeps returning to -- that is, of course the Mousetrap isn't going to prove anything. But then, what is? All Hamlet really has to go on are his own

[cesario]

Hamlet is definitely not the guy I'd go to for help making sense of the world around me. By the beginning of Act 3 he's not even seeing it anymore---it's like in Being John Malkovich, everyone around him saying "Hamlet hamlet? Hamlet hamlet hamlet!"

[cesario]

God, I DO love Chesterton. And that is Hamlet to a T, isn't it?

Everyone thinks Oliver's glosses were full of shit these days. I hope so, at least.

[rowena_zane]

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[cesario]

Oh man, ASH. I have his CD, you know. Beautiful man, beautiful voice.

[kels]

I felt that you needed to see this:

[cesario]

AWESOME! Where did you find that! Can I steal it?

[kels]

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edit: found it! http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=dread_pirate