anyway remember how act 1 of hamlet is set “in that season wherein our saviour’s birth is celebrated”? we have textual proof that the first act takes place around christmas time and still no modern-day production will give me the meeting of the danish court reimagined as an awkward family christmas dinner. imagine claudius making his speech while carving a turkey and wearing an embarrassing paper crown. imagine hamlet glaring at everyone from across a plate of sprouts. imagine hamlet doing o that this too too solid flesh would melt (yeah hamlet i know that post-christmas lunch feel) in a black snowman jumper. in scene 4 when hamlet’s saying the king keeps wassail and the swaggering upspring reels claudius is dad-dancing to shakin’ stevens in the background.
Tag: hamlet
hamlet a summary: it wasn’t the journey to avenge his father’s death that was most important, but the friends he killed along the way
Replace Ophelia with Lady Macbeth and suddenly Hamlet becomes a much shorter play
Hamlet: To be or not to be –
LM: so have you killed your uncle yet
Hamlet: What? No, I’m suffering through a complex moral dilemma and grappling with my own mortality right now.
LM: Oh, right.
Hamlet: Whether tis nobler in the mind –
LM: because you know if you kill him, you’ll become king
Hamlet: What?
LM: and I’ll become queen
Hamlet: Wait, where are you going with that knife?
LM: brb