A Hamlet Poll

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No Del Close, no credibility.

"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come".

Most of these are hard to vote for cos of the enjambment tho.

"The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"

"I will now play "Bohemian Rhapsody" on a Dyson"

"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all"

Hamlet OTM

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"ay, there's the rub"

"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all"

Hamlet OTM

I just saw the film "Deterrence" on the box. Taken out of context in this way, I'm thinking that while Hamlet's statement is factually correct, I'm happy to disagree with it if "coward" is a perjorative. And i suspect Shakespeare's making that point, especially when you consider how the play adapts the morality of a revenge play based on more complicated/real problems.

Within context, it's ambiguous what's being advocated. Suicide is the brave option, the right resolution, perverted by humane fear, or by the strictures of religion (prospect of hell). The two 'thuses' make me think that, because the honourable path of suicide is checked by thought, this introduces doubt into any other enterprise whose justice of whose motive might be questioned. The death of an ethic whhich was not subjected to endless scrutiny (historically simplistic of course, but that's not the point here).
There's no reason to think Shakespeare agrees with Hamlet of course, so this I see this as an examination of someone whose ideas are particularly muddled and adolescent, just as he's coming to question their validity and his own reasons for holding them. 'The question' is 'whether tis nobler in the mind', ie what feels purer philosophically. This is a guy whose experience of reality is limited, he's been sheltered. What Would Socrates Do? is probably what he means.
Once again, all out of context, cos obviously he's ostensibly seen a real ghost, from the depths of hell, who's told him to avenge him.
That's kind of the parody of the revenge convention, i would have thought. The fact that we get this real stuff in the same play as that gallimaufery is, purely down to the fact that it's Shakespeare, and he's amazing.

As Noodle says, pretty hard to vote for a line, but "The pangs of despised love, the law's delay," while pretty emo, is also eternal.

did anyone else have to memorize this in hs?

no, but i memorized iago's "i am not what i am" speech

Not in or for school, but after Branagh's version, I decided to read the play through with the film still fresh in my head. I have since memorized a good chunk of the play.

Elmo, I just memorized Othello's "t'was strange, t'was passing strange" speech - not too difficult!

Henry OTM, I read Hamlet as a satire on Revenge Tragedy, amongst other things.

I memorised this just for laughs. It's fun to go through when you're bored. I can't vote for a lint although the winner goes to And thus the native hue of resolution/ Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought

Did he just say 'fardels'?

Damn straight he said 'fardels'. Wanna make sumpin' of it?

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fardels ftw

anyone else watch tennant and co? (what a rubbish english student i am, having studied all bloody shakespeare other than hamlet, or have previously seen it performed. my only knowledge was the lion king storyline i guess.) i thought it was terrific. it was unerring to see many long monologues performed straight into the camera on television but i think the way it was done made it all the more satisfying. wish they settled on a time settling though; i thought it was going to be like the baz lurhman with all the guns at the start, but it still ends in a sword fight etc. etc.

glad i already own the third man aswell too. damn bbc scheduling the things i actually want to watch against each other.

no "how all occasions do inform against me" no cred

Saw a bit of it, thought he was playing it too close to the way he plays the Doctor. Also, needed to get his act together and put some shoes on, the fucking hippy.

Hamlet = a fucking hippy, so you have to play him that way

A hippy? Are you sure?

Hard to see that there is a link there so http://sub-zero.mit.edu/bakunin/hamlet.html

tony richardson's hamlet on tcm right now, nicol williamson is a revelation - the best hamlet i've seen by far

Andrew Scott nailing the fuck out of Hamlet on the TV atm

can't wait til he offs that twat Polonius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0SbVFxl64A

I've got Hamlet on in the living room, Joshua fight build-up Acestreamed on the kitchen PC, with 5 live on in the background. What a house of culture!