The king of infinite space: Finding Shakespeare in Buenos Aires, Part Two

[katiescarlett29]

This weekend, lots of wonderful things happened.  On Friday night I went to a bar that is in a former mansion, it was absolutely gorgeous (if far too expensive for its own good).  On Saturday I went for lunch in Palermo Viejo with my friend Sara, and not once but twice a band of clowns passed us by and invited us to their show.  (We didn't go.)

Comments

[crearespero]

"in his mind, merging the two people he loves best in order to feel as though he still has them both, but he doesn't. Beautiful; fascinating; really well conceived and executed." --- I love the idea of it not being an issue of either-or between Hamlet/Horatio and Hamlet/Ophelia shipping. Really, they are both 'relationships'. Sexual or no. They are both 'meaningful' in a way that is crucial to the play. I hate it when people are all 'obvs Hamlet is actually gay and not really interested in Ophelia' (thereby rendering her even more useless and pointless than before, creating yet another Only Men Are [Allowed To Be] Awesome scenario) or 'obvs Hamlet is strait, as evidenced in Ophelia (and his mom), so Hamlet/Horatio is just a silly fan fantasy; he doesn't really "love" Horatio "in that way" and pretty much we can just ignore the "meaning" of that relationship and Horatio's character at all beyond the narrow category of "obligatory Concerned Friend of suicidal looney." ' Screw them and their narrow definitions of love and sexual

[katiescarlett29]

You're probably right; you've certainly spent more time thinking about Hamlet and his motivations than I have. What I meant, rather, was his assumption that a person can only have one love in their lifetime, and specifically that Gertrude could not call it love with Claudius on account of being older. This seems to me to be a fatal misconception. I suppose it wouldn't change the course of his vengeance if he could accept that Gertrude really loves Claudius, though. It wasn't very well-thought-out.

[arthoniel]

Oh, wow, that sounds amazing!! I'm glad you had such a good time with it~