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...when Trevor Nunn unveiled his modern-dress production of ?Hamlet? this spring, a few picked at Nunn?s presumed avoidance of a political context. ?Hamlet is a political play rife with plotting, intrigue and spying,? Sue Jones wrote in the Socialist Review. ?There is something rotten in Shakespeare?s Denmark, and we see Norway waiting in the wings to invade the state, which is collapsing through the weight of its own corruption. At one point Hamlet speaks of his distress at the ease with which thousands of soldiers are sent to their deaths. In the present political climate it seems...
...text, or a new production, to see ?Hamlet? as a mirror of modern politics? Long before the war, commentators noted how Bush felt obliged to revenge the bungled attempt on his Presidential father?s life by Saddam Hussein?s agents. Anyone who uses a 21st century glass to refract Denmark in the 12th century as seen by Shakespeare at the beginning of the 17th can easily find political analogies...
...Kerry says he will respond appropriately to any attack by terrorists. Bush, however, has prevented destructive attacks by going after the terrorists. Responding or preventing? The choice is easy. Peter Norsk Nivaa, Denmark...
...example and have the intelligence and courage to change their preference to him. Alan Benson Berlin Kerry says he will respond appropriately to any attack by terrorists. Bush, however, has prevented terrorist attacks by going after the terrorists. Responding or preventing? The choice is easy. Peter Norsk Nivaa, Denmark...
Nothing is rotten in the state of Viggo, whose father is from Denmark. If brooding introspection always looked this good, Hamlet would be a whole different play...