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Hamlet
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February 20, 2016
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* HAMLET by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Michael Finocchiaro
Oct 02, 2016 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: shakespeare, theatre, classics, english-16th-c, tragedy, favorites
The genius in Shakespeare is that the text is so full of poetry and ambiguity that it can be interpreted (and often with reason) is diametrically opposed ways. TS Elliott thought it was a hack job whereas Coleridge saw it as a play about melancholy and inaction, Freud says Oedipus and AC Bradley sees a hero awakening to his fate. Somewhere in there, one must read the text for oneself and revel in its beauty and violence.

I watched both the 1948 film version by Laurence Olivier (2h46) and the 199 ...more
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Peter
May 06, 2016 rated it really liked it
Only giving it this rating because I sympathize with Hamlet
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Feb 25, 2018 rated it it was ok
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