OK, famous speech out of the way. Let’s keep going. Like some sharks, if we stop moving forward, we’ll die.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
stupid patriarchy card
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1 (part 2)
And we’re back! ALL TOGETHER NOW…
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
HAMLET: “..the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns…”
GHOST: “What am I, chopped liver?”
Scene.
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1
It’s a new day! It’s a new act!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Now, don’t get mad, but I’m actually taking next week off to go to the annual Shakespeare Theatre Association conference. But I’ll be back the week after that with You Know What (aka The Speech That Must Not Be Named). It’s gonna be fun!
Stick Figure Iconography: Ophelia
One more Stick Figure Iconography before we continue our journey through Hamlet. Today let’s take a closer look at Ophelia, who, despite being not-mad for most of the play, is, visually at least, inextricably associated with her mad accouterments.
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Tune in on Thursday for ACT 3! It’s got a couple decent speeches in it, I hear.
Stick Figure Iconography: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
While we all recover from the never-ending morass that was Act 2, Scene 2, let’’s catch our breath with some more Hamlet-themed Stick Figure Iconographies!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Tune in next week for one more Iconography before we FINALLY get on with Act 3!
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 2, Scene 2 (part 7)
It’s time for SOLILOQUY #3!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
And with that, we’re FINALLY done with Act 2, Scene 2! I can’t tell you how excited I am to be moving on from this interminable scene.
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 2, Scene 2 (part 6)
BRING ON THE PLAYERS-WITHIN-A-PLAY
(NOTE: I goofed and originally posted this twice. Go back to see the correct part 5.)
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
A Stick-Figure Hamlet: Act 2, Scene 2 (part 5)
We’re past the half-way point for this interminable scene! The end is nigh-ish!
Consulting pocket dramaturg: Kate Pitt
Fun fact: The whole “pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral” bit is one of my favorite gags in the play.