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...almost twenty years old, having a full-fledged love affair, as well as his neurotic mother taking on lover, Van. All this dismay follows his father's untimely death and the departure of his mother and sister from their decrepit house--his melancholic behavior resonates with allusions to Hamlet...
...Shakespeare course will focus on issues of kinship and revenge in Hamlet, Measure for Measure and The Merchant of Venice, Shell said. He said the class will differ from Professor of English Marjorie Garber's Core course on Shakespeare...
...strong belief in committed theater, theater which acts as a catalyst for social change. Rasminsky recalls, "I had seen this group called New Landscapes, that works with kids in lockup, they do monologues of Shakespeare interspersed with their own lives--Hamlet, here's this kid who comes home and his father's dead and his mother remarries, and he's really pissed. They did it in ways these kids could really relate to, be inspired by. And then I thought, what if we could do it with this, and I got really excited...
...slaughter." Now, immured in his unreal world, he recalls, simultaneously, his boyhood in Paris, his discovery of the diary of a 19th century forebear, his life as the husband of an actress and his anguished puzzlement at his father's death and his mother's remarriage. A latter-day Hamlet, Unwin is driven mad by the sense that all of us are playacting, adrift in a world of "suppose...
Several scenes in Chekhov's drama echo Hamlet. Director Ron Daniels chose to high light this connection by casting the same four leads in the roles parallel to those in the A.R.T.'s production of Hamlet earlier this year...