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Microdosing on Jonathan Harker being in the Toils by going to see Hamlet

Hey. I know Hamlet is done to death. I know there’s always this drive to do something new with Shakespeare. I know that a lot of the times you cut stuff, maybe for length, maybe for art, maybe both.

But like. When you’re making your artistic decisions. I think that. Probably.

“Goodnight Sweet Prince”

…is one of the lines you really ought to leave in

Okay so apparently this wasn’t a case of Questionable Artistic Choices, they were working off an entirely different edition, possibly one pirated by Marcellus’s actor.

Fascinating

The clause “pirated by Marcellus’ actor” really raises more questions than it answers. Do you mean the actor who played Marcellus in the production you saw, and if so, why would someone in this day and age need to pirate Hamlet? Do you mean an actor who played Marcellus at the Globe in c. AD 1600, and if so, you can’t just leave it THERE

SECOND ONE

So it’s the 1603 Hamlet, the earliest extant folio. The standard Hamlet we know is the 1605 folio, although it is often informed by the 1606 edition. (Shakespeare scholars double check me, this is like third hand from a Google search because we came home last night and were like WTF was THAT)

Some notable differences:

• First soliloquy is weird. I am familiar with “too too solid flesh” which some editions make “too too sullied flesh” I think reflecting the differences between the 1605 and 1606 versions. 1603 said “sallied” and it got weirder from there. No thawing or resolving, there was another predicate that I misremember, very very strange
• Rosencroft and Guildenstone
• The Fourth Soliloquy is just cut to shreds. It goes “to be or not to be, aye there’s the sting”. Also SUPER INTERESTING the end of it is totally reframed in terms of hope for heaven rather than fear of hell. “The hope something after death” we were like whaaaaaaaat
• The end of Claudius at prayer is totally changed. “My words fly up, my sins remain below” and then something about how there’s no hope for a King when God is against him
• There is a whole extra scene of Gertrude and Horatio conspiring to smuggle Hamlet back into England (no pirates). Which. That is a Whole Thing.
• Hamlet’s death scene is also totally cut to shreds. It felt like Pyramus and Thisbe

The reason people think it might be a pirated edition (by Marcellus’s actor) is because every scene Marcellus is in is verbatim to the 1605 edition. A lot of it also really does feel like someone trying to rewrite Hamlet from memory. There’s a lot of weird repetition, the Rosencrantz & Guildenstern thing really sounds like someone who has heard the names pronounced but never seen them written, some lines and most major plot points are landed on perfectly but huge chunks are just missing, you get synonyms (Hamlet says “drab” in place of “whore” in …is that the third soliloquy? “Infinite mirth” instead of “infinite jest”) The jokes seemed to be as a rule much more intact than other things. Which resulted in it being one of the funniest Hamlets I have ever seen (which was also helped by the fact that Polonius was the best actor in the cast).

So I know about theatrical script piracy from Gilbert & Sullivan. It was apparently enough of a thing that people were pirating scripts and producing unlicensed plays that during rehearsals for Iolanthe the title character was named Perula, so that they would be able to root out unofficial reproductions (because they would have the wrong name). [This was also when all successful G&S operas had begun with P]. So apparently it was a major concern in the Victorian era, so why not the Elizabethan as well.

So I guess the theory is that 1603 Hamlet is a leaked script compiled from memory by whoever was playing Marcellus at the Globe, and that’s why it’s Like That

I’ve been in a read-through of this version of Hamlet! Very strange experience. It’s recognizably Hamlet, and yet… not *quite* the lines you’re expecting.

We used this edition, which includes an intro describing the 1603 Q1 Hamlet as “certainly completely produceable” and discussing the various theories of where it may have come from. (It seems the piracy theory is not the only theory, but it is definitely my favorite.)

The production you saw sounds like it had a few differences from the edition I’ve linked — like Polonius still being called “Polonius”, and “…ay there’s the sting” instead of “…ay, there’s the point”. I wonder if these were choices made by the director of that particular production, or if there’s some variation across modern editions of this text. There are apparently two extant copies of the Q1 Hamlet; maybe they’re not exactly the same, and maybe different editors have made different choices.

anne-the-quene:

So there’s this podcast called Rex Factor that I’m a patron of and they had a pub quiz where you have to choose a username so I played as Queen Anne Lackhead and I came in third place so they said my name on the livestream and they thought my name was funny

ryttu3k:

basedandfatpilled:

#do u think that it was awkward in the group when the rest found out that shere khan hunted down and tried to kill a kid multiple times? #im not discussing the ethics of shere khan trying to kill a child or whether mowgli deserved it or not im just wondering like. #was it awkward for them #do u think tigger and hobbes text abt him and how they can’t invite him to big family bbqs anymore bc of chris and calvin? #does tony stop posting group pics that have shere khan in them bc he doesn’t want to lose his kelloggs endorsement? #tigress probably is the neutral party bc humans don’t even exist to her #is there a big drunken blowout between them one night where the tension is too strong #and shere khan yells about how ‘you don’t understand! he tied a fucking ON FIRE BRANCH to my TAIL!! i was traumatized!’ #and theyre all like ‘you don’t think he was traumatized??? you were hunting him and telling the whole jungle you were going to kill him!’ #there’s a scuffle that ends in tigress holding back shere khan and both tigger and calvin holding back tony… #eventually the latter two convince tony to leave the restaurant for some fresh air #and and shere khan breaks down and sobs that he just wants his fucking friends back while the rest of the restaurant watches in silence? #idk something to think about

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dekuskacchan:

i absolutely LOVE aoyama in this shot. he’s so clearly full of emotion. so determined, nervous, angry… i think he’s tired of AFO essentially holding his family hostage and wants to set things right.

pinkballerinas:

“She was living the life of a fairy-tale princess, envied and admired.”

— Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar (1955)

damnamyte:

Can I deal with these leaks in a way which does not spell out that I absolutely fucking can’t stand the way Ha/wks and E/ndeavour are roaming free and about, notwithstanding the way their actions were fully conscious and intentional, while Aoyama sits in jail, constricted and not able to move with Tsuka/uchi’s fucking mug staring disappointedly at him while he is crying his heart out while being guilty of being afraid of dying? No, I can’t.

ejacutastic:

ejacutastic:

we’re all going to have to start making text posts as captchas so the auto filters can’t catch us

My three

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And yes, they smoke

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inthefallofasparrow:

All you fools are gonna look super dumb when the Queen hobbles out on her walking stick in February, stops in a daze, topples forward and almost falls flat on her face, but at the last second does a forward somersault, jumps back up, and then cheerfully gives a bunch of children a tour of Buckingham Palace, during which she kills them off one by one, in order to choose which one will be the next queen.