it’s the darkly hilarious Hamlet who emerges in dialogue with people he doesn’t like who really wins me over.
Oh yes, me too. I happen to love the soliloquies as well (well, okay, maybe not "How all occasions do inform against me," but the others), but I love Hamlet best in dialogue. He's so sharp and funny and bitter and...yeah. Plus his speech to Horatio--"Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice"--always makes me wibble. Oh, boys.
And the gravediggers! I love that Hamlet, for once, has to play straight man in the graveyard scene.
Also, I always flail my way through teaching Hamlet. Teaching "To be or not to be," this last time, was actually the least flaily attempt so far, surprisingly. But day two made up for it, oh dear dear dear.
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Date: 2010-04-21 02:29 am (UTC)it’s the darkly hilarious Hamlet who emerges in dialogue with people he doesn’t like who really wins me over.
Oh yes, me too. I happen to love the soliloquies as well (well, okay, maybe not "How all occasions do inform against me," but the others), but I love Hamlet best in dialogue. He's so sharp and funny and bitter and...yeah. Plus his speech to Horatio--"Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice"--always makes me wibble. Oh, boys.
And the gravediggers! I love that Hamlet, for once, has to play straight man in the graveyard scene.
Also, I always flail my way through teaching Hamlet. Teaching "To be or not to be," this last time, was actually the least flaily attempt so far, surprisingly. But day two made up for it, oh dear dear dear.