![]() ![]() We are born, we die, we become dust no matter the action we take in our lives. ![]() Was Hamlet the result of having pondered long and deep about the futility of action? The things we can’t control? We all become dust, like old Yorick, or Alexander the Great, or Julius Caesar. ![]() Would Shakespeare have changed his life for his son’s? Grief, angst, and disgust for this world pervade his discourse. Knowing now that Shakespeare lost his son around the time he wrote this tragedy and having learned that The Bard himself acted as Old Hamlet Ghost in the productions I discovered a whole new universe of possible interpretation in the Prince of Denmark’s long speeches. He is the paragon of human fragility, the eternal dilemma of “being and not being” condensed in the most famous soliloquy of all times. Where does Hamlet come from? Is his conflicted nature product of circumstance, the result of being pawned in political subterfuge, or simply the puppet of greater forces to enact revenge causing more destruction than amending the initial wrongdoings of his uncle? Having recently read O’Farrell’s Hamnet I was tempted to revisit Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy with some new added perspective about his most complex of characters. ![]()
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