Hamlet: like a new fandom, only not new and not actually fandom

[beccaelizabeth]

I am reading the thingy about the play, the programme.
I realise I know nothing about Hamlet. In fact I possibly know wrong things. There's a bunch of different versions and important speeches are in different orders and things.
This might be one more reason this one made more sense in my head.

I totally need to study this.



Also I got to a sentence they just did and sort of got stuck because it rings true like church bells, very big noise, make a sort of sense.

Someone once said that madness is when people stop trying to understand you.



That would make madness be in other people, what they're doing towards the mad.

Huh.


Also more practical sounding stuff like "The text may allow ambiguity, but actors can't act it. We need to make choices. That's the difference between reading a play and acting it."

Then I go hmmm and poke that statement a bit. Because yeah but...

other bits of interesting. mention of how it's a world of surveillance. all sorts of neat stuff.

... I'm totally going to look stuff up at college.
because clearly I don't have enough reading to do that goes towards actual grades.

... I'm so in the right subject area.

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[lizw.livejournal.com]

That would make madness be in other people, what they're doing towards the mad.

That would fit well with the social model of disability. I've seen it applied to mental health before, I think, but not so pithily as in that quote from the programme. Thanks for sharing it.

Hamlet is my favourite Shakespeare play, mainly for nostalgic reasons - my father taught it to several of his Abitur (German A-level) classes when I was a wee thing, and I used to climb into his lap when he got home from school and make him tell me what scenes they'd done and how the discussion had gone.

[beccaelizabeth]

social model somehow seems more obvious when applied to wheels.
but yeah.