HAMLET BARD IN THE BOTANICS GORDON Barr is not the first director to cast a woman as
Hamlet.
Unad said among the probable '
hamlets' in Southern Mindanao include the Ata Manobo village in Talaingod, a portion near the boundary with Kapalong, an area in Compostela Valley, Marilog, and Davao City; and a part of Surigao del Sur.
For many young people this was their first encounter with
Hamlet, the tormented prince whose uncle killed his father and then married his (
Hamlet's) mother.
Litvin's book is truly the first book-length analysis of Arab
Hamlets. However, the reader is given no indication that there are a substantial number of other Arab and Tamazight
Hamlets in other Arab states who are not represented because their work is not actually written in Arabic, or because their Arabic is apparently too remote, linguistically or geographically.
He writes: "I've seen bolder
Hamlets and more moving
Hamlets, but few who kept me so riveted throughout ...
Hamlets in small communities across Japan where those aged 65 or older account for more than half the number of residents are on the verge of extinction in the face of the falling birthrate and the aging of Japanese society as a whole.
He brings theatrical
Hamlets into conversation with women
Hamlets in the novel and in film; we encounter the Hamlet-like heroine of Mary Braddon's melodramatic novel Eleanor's Victory; Asta Neilsen's 1921 film potrayal of
Hamlet as a girl brought up as man (after the critic Vining, who believed this was Shakespeare's intention); and Marie Brassard as Lucie in Robert Lepage's noir whodunnit play Polygraph (1989; adapted for film in 1996) in which 'all [the] characters unwittingly re-enact
Hamlet's ontological encounters' (310).
In their
Hamlets, interruption exposed history as an accumulation of individual stories: interruption provoked the replay of such stories and was used to show theatre as remembering the past.
That both Claudius and Old
Hamlet have done wrong becomes evident when we note the likeness of their punishments.
As significant as the assertion itself is the fact that Olivier's most prominent interpretive stance in his film version of
Hamlet, one that has provoked debate and speculation for over fifty years, should be taken from another film.
Modern
Hamlets is theatre history at its best, full of insights into the workings of the stage and understanding of larger social movements.
