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Personal play or political?

Contents

Personal/individual

  • Hamlets soliloquies – inferiority
  • Family issues e.g. Polonius subplot
  • Hamlet’s oedipal issues
  • Hamlet and Ophelia
  • Revenge spurred by personal reasons
  • Even Claudius has a conscience
  • Tragic flaw – “vicious mole”
  • Personal journey of Hamlet
  • Murder is fratricide – biblical reference


Political

  • Claudius – new political order
  • Fortinbras subplot
  • Decay – “something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
  • Denmark preparing for war
  • Sentinels on guard
  • Kingship issues –usurpation
  • Claudius and Gertrude – power not love?


Eastern Bloc countries

See it mostly political – Stalin had it banned

  • usually up to director
  • Hamlet changes his attitude to political
  • have to co-exist – can’t exist without the other
  • maybe personal is political – they are royal and exalted figures
  • all actions are political in totalitarian dictatorships
  • emerging as a new capitalist society.


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Originally posted by BeckySparrow on TSR Forums.

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