The Tragedy of Hamlet: The O.G. annoying theatre kid

holy shit this was hard. Our first attempt at shakespeare and it was a doozy!

Rich struggled through the original text and only had the vaguest idea what was going on. Cam watched every single movie adaptation and studied for two weeks but still got casually mogged by his girlfriend.

By the time we got done with the discussion we were all actually hyped to read more shakespeare so something must have gone right.

Covering such topics as:

The impenetrability of Shakespearean english, whether it's better to read modern translations or the original text, our favourite lines and soliloquies, shitting on the Freudian reading, connections to David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, and Hamlet as the archetypal annoying theatre kid.

CHAPTERS

• (00:00:00) intro
• (00:03:53) ye olde Shakesperean english vs modern translations
• (00:14:52) Cam’s film corner segment
• (00:18:07) Hamlet’s pathological indecisiveness
• (00:23:27) To be, or not to be?
• (00:25:34) shitting on the Freudian/oedipal reading
• (00:32:12) Ophelia and Gertrude’s motivations
• (00:34:06) protestant heaven loophole
• (00:42:15) favourite lines and famous quotes
• (00:45:05) Influence on DFW and other theatre kids
• (00:48:12) There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
• (00:51:44) we rescue the freudian/oedipal reading!
• (00:53:08) what does the clusterfuck of an ending signify
• (00:58:07) will we engage with W. Shakespeare again in future
• (01:03:37) Terrence Howard penis size analysis

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