So good from the get-go with vivid characterizations & emotional crises.

#Hamlet_2026 Day 3, 3/29- Act I s2 from 135,

Flourish; exeunt all but Hamlet

HAM.
O that this too too solid flesh would melt

to end of sc.,

HAM.
My father's spirit in arms? All is not well.
...
Til then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

Hurray, the brilliant illustrations!

“How is it that the clouds still hang on you?”
#hamlet_2026

I always thought of Hamlet in his late teens or early 20s. Nicol Williamson is 32 & looks mid-20s in the 1968 movie!

Paragraph starts with "The women were sniffling..." p.176 in the red cover ND edition (w/o Nobel seal).

#nowwatching Directed by Tony Richardson, 1969 movie with Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Marianne Faithfull, Nicol Williamson.

Simon Russell Beale: Hamlet (Shakespeare) — National Theatre Live: 50 Years On Stage YouTube video by Happily Hades-bound

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Simon Russell Beale: Hamlet (Shakespeare) — National Theatre Live: 50 Years On Stage YouTube video by Happily Hades-bound

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#nowwatching Directed by Tony Richardson, 1969 movie with Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Marianne Faithfull, Nicol Williamson.

The 10 best Hamlets From David Tennant's sardonic and volatile performance to John Gielgud's choked-up ferocity, Susannah Clapp picks the 10 best portrayals of Hamlet

How many have you seen? #Hamlet_2026 #Hamlet #Shakespeare #Play #Performance

😀 Must find the one with Simon Russell Beale from #AnthonyPowellTogether #Widmerpool

www.theguardian.com/culture/2010...

...the "billiards table" upon which there lay, scattered haphazardly, the leafy remains of the maple and silver poplar branches that had adorned the child's body; she did not take her handkerchief from her eyes...The men stood numbly, watching Irimias...

2VI #SatantangoTogether Rural tradition? 🧐

Shakespeare at the height of his powers!

a woman with curly hair is talking to another woman and saying `` snap out of it ! '' ALT: a woman with curly hair is talking to another woman and saying `` snap out of it ! ''

First thought was that you were referring to King Claudius! #Hamlet_2026 Today's Day 2 where he admonishes Hamlet for STILL mourning his father's death.

HAMLET.
Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not "seems."
'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother
...
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
That can denote me fully.

Act I s2 #Hamlet_2026 He is the only one in solemn black at the court, per my handwritten notes in old high school copy.

KING. But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son-

HAM. [Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind!

KING. How is it that the clouds still hang on you?

HAM. Not so, my lord. I am too much i' the sun.

QUEEN. Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted* color off
...all that lives must die...

*dark

(2/2)

KING. But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son-

HAM. [Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind!

KING. How is it that the clouds still hang on you?

HAM. Not so, my lord. I am too much i' the sun.

QUEEN. Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted* color off
...all that lives must die...

*dark

(2/2)

#Hamlet_2026 Day 2, 3/28- Act I s2

KING.
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
The memory be green, and that it befitted
To bear our hearts in grief

to line 134,

KING.
Respeaking earthly thunder. Come away.

(1/2)

#SatantangoTogether

"Let us take stock, piece by piece, each one of us in turn . . .

...

since who can we trust but ourselves — no one else can lay bare the story of this momentous night and morning . . ."

"Blood is a very strong tie; so much can be taken for granted, after the first shyness."

6 May 1918 #Diary of Virginia Woolf - volume one. #Woolfpack

"The grave words rang mournfully through the bar: it was like the continuous tolling of furiously beaten bells, the sound of which served less to direct them to the source of their problems than simply to terrify them." Furious bells but "waiting benumbed." p 167 🖤#Satantangotogether

BARNARDO

How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale.
Is not this something more than fantasy?
What think you on’t?
#Hamlet_2026

Act I s1 (53-55)

#OliviaManning

Yep, a reason that I'm saving the Levant Trilogy- loved the Balkan Trilogy & School for Love.

to leave this dead end and to seek your fortunes elsewhere. (2/2)

#USFilmindustry #Stuck

...it felt good to see old familiar faces, but...I was at the same time concerned to see that you, my friends, were still stuck here--do protest if you find 'stuck' too strong a word--stuck here, at the back of beyond, years after having often enough decided to move on, (1/2)
VI #SatantangoTogether

Hope you have time to read with us! 😀

We shall see if the Ghost will speak with Hamlet! (I've forgotten most of this play...)

MAR.
The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallowed and so gracious is the time.

Act I s1 #Hamlet_2026 Belief in the evil influence which the planets could exert was common at this time. Also #Christmastime 🎄

#Hamlet_2026 Day 1, 3/27/26- Act I s1

Location. Elsinore Castle.

BERN. Who's there?

to end of sc.,

MAR. Where we shall find him most conveniently.

#Shakespeare #Quest