Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upcoming. On Dec. 8 he or she -- some claim that Spuds is actually a female whose real name is Evie -- will be a guest veejay on MTV and early next year will appear in a supporting role in Robert Downey's new movie Rented Lips. "He wasn't playing Hamlet, but Spuds was perfect on the first take every time," says Film Producer Mort Engelberg. "He didn't ask for overtime, and there was no sexual misconduct on the set." Hollywood, in short, seems at last to be barking up the right tree...
That's not good. But there's still one hope left. Though his Hamlet act is beginning to wear thin, in January Mario Cuomo is scheduled to be the sole questioner at a debate among Republican hopefuls in Iowa. Very interesting. That's one questioner who just may be the answer the Democrats are looking...
Bloom, in his third of six Charles Eliot Norton lectures, said that Shakespeare portrayed characters like Hamlet, Lear and Falstaff so realistically that he forever altered the expectations of readers and play audiences...
...tragic hero in Shakespeare, at its best in Hamlet, is a representation so original that conceptually he contains us and has fashioned our psychology of motives ever since," he said...
...result of Shakespeare's brilliant representation of characters is that many of the playwright's creations are fully implanted in modern notions, including the ideal of the Freudian parental authority in Lear, the disinterested seer and truth-finder in Hamlet, and the totally free man or superego in Falstaff...