"The Politics of Mourning" in HAMLET - Act 1, Sc 2, Week 1 - Shakespeare | The Rehearsal Room

Описание: We continue our BIGGEST venture to date: The HAMLET Project, where we explore one scene (or section) of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" - one month at a time.
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🏁 In this session, highlights include:
➤ An analysis of Claudius's maneuvering and the implications of his marriage to Gertrude
➤ Insights into Hamlet's emotional turmoil as he grapples with his mother's actions
➤ Discussion on how Gertrude's agency challenges traditional perceptions of her character

We explore Act 1, Scene 2: Claudius, the new king of Denmark, thanks his courtiers for their recent support and dispatches ambassadors to Norway to halt a threatened attack from Fortinbras. He gives Laertes permission to return to France but denies Hamlet’s request to return to the university in Wittenberg. Hamlet, mourning for his father’s death, is left alone to vent his despair at what he regards as his mother’s all too hasty marriage to his uncle, Claudius. Horatio, Barnardo, and Marcellus arrive and tell Hamlet about the Ghost. Hamlet makes plans to join them that night.

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🎭 CREATIVE TEAM for this month:
DIRECTOR: Annie Occhiogrosso
ACTORS: Randall Duk Kim, Lee Ernst, Benjamin Reigel, Larry Petersen, Nick Bettens, Michele Schultz, Liz Swain, Sarah Mabes
AUDIENCE: Sandy Robbins, Sandy Ernst, Laurie Strother, Doug Strother, Chuck Stransky, Jim Stubbs, Terry Kerr, Steven Helmeke, Mikaela Kafka, Osborn Focht, Ezra Barnes, Sharon McCune, Rebecca Oettinger, Baron Kelly, James Nester, Roseann Sheridan

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📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, ‪@shakespearesrealtake5300‬, has written three books on Shakespeare:
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-Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: https://amzn.to/3KEzyZK
-William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: https://amzn.to/3xdt012

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