Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland talked last evening before a large audience in Sever 11, on "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark," as a play. In brief Mr. Copeland's talk was as follows...
...Hamlet is the most popular of all of Shakespeare's plays, and managers are always sure of filling their theatres when they offer it for presentation. This is not wonderful, for the work is a melodrama pure and simple. It is a "tragedy of blood," and is a play in which action is the predominant feature. The plots and conspiracies; the play within a play; Hamlet's journey to England and return; the madness of Orphelia; all are full of action, and form a potent attraction for the popular mind. Throughout the play there is a bleak, cold humor, which...
...them a work of genius, upon which famous illustrators have for hundreds of years been engaged, and which generations of great actors have interpreted. It is to be ranked with but three other works of Shakespeare: Othello, Macbeth and King Lear. When considering these plays in relation to Hamlet, one point of contrast immediately presents itself. In Hamlet it is not the hero of the play who acts and keeps you in suspense. He is the one unhappy soul hurried along by the fates and he only acts when he must. In each of the other three plays the hero...
Lecture. "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." Sever...
Lecture. "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." Sever...