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MrScorpio

(73,630 posts) Sat May 4, 2013, 06:17 PM May 2013

Another nifty fact for you…

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Another nifty fact for you… (Original Post) MrScorpio May 2013 OP

HAHAHAHA!!! harmonicon May 2013 #1

I have always considered him overrated as a playwright... Angle-Saxon ancestor worship! Sekhmets Daughter May 2013 #2

harmonicon

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1. HAHAHAHA!!!

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2013, 08:40 PM

May 2013

I do absolutely love Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet." I had no idea it had been turned into a play.

Sekhmets Daughter

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2. I have always considered him overrated as a playwright... Angle-Saxon ancestor worship!

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat May 4, 2013, 08:52 PM

May 2013

His tragedies are comedic and his comedies are tragedies....and yeah I know all about his writing for the norms of his time. His historical plays are his best as far as storyline. It is the sheer beauty of his prose and poetry and his insight into human nature that are worthy of praise... I recognize that I am a minority of 1.

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