jumpingjacktrash: shakesankle: So let’s discuss the last scene of Hamlet, shall we? (Caution: long post.) It starts out with just Hamlet and Horatio, discussing the deceit of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Horatio is explicitly made aware that King Claudius was at the root of the plot to kill Hamlet. Then Osric enters and informs them that…

phantomrose96: phantomrose96: I read Hamlet back in high school and to this day my absolute favorite thing about it was when Guildenstern was trying to fool Hamlet into doing something or other and Hamlet’s savvy to it but rather than saying “you’re lying and trying to trick me” instead Hamlet outta nowhere whips out this flute and…

interstellarsam: the most extra things that hamlet did in the play, in no particular order told his mother that no matter how much black he wore it could never really reflect how he felt inside had a full conversation in a graveyard with a gravedigger about death and talked to the skull of a man…

kyraneko: thepurposeofplaying: theprettygoodgatsby: my favorite part of hamlet is at the beginning when they see the ghost of hamlet sr for the first time and the guards are like “Horatio, you go talk to it! You went to college!” and Horatio is like “Yeah! I did go to college! I will go talk to the ghost!”…

thepurposeofplaying: YES, ACTUALLY YES HE FUCKING DID BC (a) EVERY COLLEGE THEN WAS GHOST COLLEGE bc ghosts were widely believed to be Real™ n thus scholars learnt abt them. moreover, as everybody knows, ghosts only communicate in Latin; Latin is the scholastic language. Horatio is a scholar, thus both knows abt ghosts and knows Latin, so it…

prissybabyhamlet: okay when I direct hamlet I know exactly what I want in the opening scenes the audience will be in traverse. when they come in hamlet will be sitting in his designated seat, on his phone. audience comes in, house lights down, stage lights up, hamlet is still on his phone. audience to either…