Hamlet 2.0: Aeschylus: Agamemnon (1983 TV) part 8/10

It is we who are Hamlet. . . . He who has felt his mind sink within him, and sadness cling to his heart like a malady, who has had his hopes blighted and his youth staggered by the apparitions of strange things; who cannot be well at ease when he sees evil hovering near him like a spectre; whose powers of action have been eaten up by thought, he to whom the universe seems infinite, and himself nothing; whose bitterness of soul makes him careless of consequences, and who goes to a play as his best resource to shove off, to a second remove, the evils of life by a mock representation of them—this is the true Hamlet.
--William Hazlitt

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Aeschylus: Agamemnon (1983 TV) part 8/10

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