[Past Event] Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" | Livestream Zoom

Course Description:

Please note: This course will no longer meet in-person. We'll meet instead via Livestream Zoom.
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The longest of Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" arguably is also his greatest—a pinnacle of Renaissance culture and a forerunner of modernity. It is a thrilling drama of revenge and politics that has never been off the stage since it was written over 400 years ago. The late Harold Bloom called it “Poem Unlimited.” It is in the character of Prince Hamlet, the most compelling and fascinating—yet ultimately unknowable—of Shakespeare’s creations, that the play comes most alive. In our study of "Hamlet," we will compare radically different interpretations of the play, looking at versions of scenes set in historical Denmark as well as some set in present-day Manhattan. As Shakespeare’s friend and competitor Ben Jonson said of The Bard, “He was not of an age but for all time.”