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May 2, 2008 at 08:04:48

Hamlet Adaptation (Act 1, Scene 4)

by john de herrera Page 2 of 3 page(s)

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                                   HORATIO
                          (to Hamlet)
            I think it wants you to go away with it.

                                   MARCELLUS
            No--don't!

                                   HORATIO
            I agree--don't go with it.

                                   HAMLET
            I must if I'm to find how to set things right.

                                   HORATIO
            No my lord--don't!

                                   HAMLET
            What's to fear? I couldn't care less if I die, and there's
            nothing it can do to my soul.

                                   HORATIO
            What if it draws you to the cliffs above the waves?

                                   MARCELLUS
            And shifts shape into a demon--it might drive you over the
            edge!

                                   HAMLET
                          (to Ghost)
            Go, I'll follow you.

                                   MARCELLUS
                          (attempting to restrain Hamlet)
            No my lord--no!

                                   HAMLET
            Let go of me!

                                   HORATIO
                          (also attempting to restrain
                           Hamlet)
            Prince Hamlet--no!

                                   HAMLET
                          (he struggles against them)
            This is my fate! My veins are a lion's! I must know the
            truth! Even if it means my death! Let go of me! Now! Or
            I'll make a ghost of you!

                                   (They free Hamlet. He steps towards
                                   the Ghost.)

                                   HAMLET (CONT'D)
                          (to Ghost)
            Go on then, I'll follow you.

                                   (Ghost and Hamlet exit.)

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Though he is of noble blood, Ferdinand has no desire to fight or rule. He would prefer to explore, to ponder, to love, and to smell the flowers. Nevertheless, Ferdinand is a bull and he has horns.
FerdinandThough he is of noble blood, Ferdinand has no desire to fight or rule. He would prefer to explore, to ponder, to love, and to smell the flowers. Nevertheless, Ferdinand is a bull and he has horns.

something IS rotten in the state

I saw some of the comments posted on your last piece. Naysayers be damned.

My thesis in college was an analysis and design for Love's Labour's Lost, one of Shakespeare's more challenging plays. The whole play is a series of word-plays, most of which are lost on a current audience. At the time, very few knew how to read and the English language was being crafted by the masters of wit, giving Shakespeare great freedom. All of the fun and illusion of the story comes crashing to a halt at the end of the play when the reality of war and death sets in upon the nobles who had been lost in their labours of love. In the end, it is realized that love cannot be obtained or conveyed simply by having a smart tongue, but is something much deeper and more important than any such superficial expression.

But alas, this play is rarely ever performed and almost never understood. Would that there were more people, like yourself, willing to bring Shakespeare and his intelligence to our current world, as we are in dire need of it. Our televisions and movie theaters are overflowing with refuse, and yet I see you being criticized for your modest endeavours.

Shakespeare (whoever he was) took his stories from those that came before him, and those writers borrowed from the classics, which were inspired by the tales of old. There is no need to concern ourselves with offending the "great Shakespeare." He is dead, living only as a ghost that haunts our souls from time to time, but he is nothing more.

Onward through the tragedy, my friend. Plug your nose and hold your breath if the stench of the decaying monstrosity is too overwhelming. But rest assured, the crimes of the wicked will not go unpunished.

by Ferdinand (17 articles, 4 quicklinks, 29 diaries, 233 comments) on Friday, May 2, 2008 at 4:51:49 PM

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john de herreraWriter from California

thanks ferdinand

i really do think making the stories accessible is important. i want to offer them to the person i was years ago--to people who would be interested to read the scripts if the elizabethan were not so difficult.

look forward to more my friend.

by john de herrera (36 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 156 comments) on Friday, May 2, 2008 at 5:30:44 PM