Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Reading from "Hamlet." Mr. Copeland. Sever...
...question concerning what Shakespeare intented to teach by his play, and whether the madness of Hamlet was real or feigned, have formed the themes of countless discussions. It is probable that Shakespeare never contemplated teaching any lesson. He was much too great an artist for that. It is certain that, whatever may be the result of these discussions, it will never be known what Shakespeare thought about the madness of Hamlet. The mystery in the play is its chief attraction. It would have been easy for Shakespeare to make a puzzle in the first four acts, and to solve this...
...play of Hamlet is unceasingly attractive in its human and dramatic power. Throughout the tragedy there is an artful blending of realism with high poetic skill. The drawing of the characters is definite, keen, and very impressive...
...striking fact about the character of Hamlet, as contrasted with most of Shakespeare's heroes is his reality, - his almost corporeal presence. He is as real to us as the people about us in our daily life, perhaps more real than many of them. We feel with absolute certainty that Hamlet lived, and that he died. There is perhaps no other character in Shakespeare, with the exception of Sir John Falstaff, whom we can not picture as being even now alive. But the death of Hamlet we feel as we do that of a friend...
...Tuesday, March 19, Mr. Copeland will speak again in Sever 11, on Hamlet as seen on the stage...