Shakespeare, by compressing the plot into a matter of days, making Hamlet full-grown, and having the murder a secret known only to Hamlet, through the Ghost, makes Hamlet's show of madness not just superfluous but truly self-destructive — it does nothing but draw suspicious attention to him.
Shakespeare, by compressing the plot into a matter of days, making Hamlet full-grown, and having the murder a secret known only to Hamlet, through the Ghost, makes Hamlet's show of madness not just superfluous but truly self-destructive it doeself-destructive itsuspicious attention to him.
What's so inventive and brazen about the thing is that although Ray has set her version in the modern day, she hasn't done so by making Hamlet a hunky high schooler.
His iambic pentameter is a bit splayed out like a chicken born with legs akimbo, but it works, making Hamlet familiar, not so foreign, not so distant and entirely digestible.
"He made Hamlet humorous and human".
What makes Hamlet such a fascinating character?
There will be enough hand-wringing over this to make Hamlet proud.
Charming, chilling, generous, mendacious, loyal, calculating and capricious, Clough makes Hamlet look like Mr Benn.
Lionel Bart told journalists that he was hoping to make Hamlet: The Musical.
What makes "Hamlet" different from Shakespeare's previous work is the way it brings out a complete inner life.
If the style smacks of desperation, enough of the jokes cling to make "Hamlet 2," directed by Andrew Fleming, intermittently funny.
