{"id":1398817,"date":"2017-07-15T14:51:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T18:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1398817"},"modified":"2022-04-06T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T16:03:34","slug":"blogging-hamlet-main","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/blogging-hamlet-main\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Hamlet<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As someone who spends a lot of time perusing \u00a0the various revenge plots and sex jokes of Shakespeare, I’ve come to believe that the Bard of Avon really only wrote three kinds of plays:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Someone’s in love, and this is terrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. There’s been a misunderstanding, and this is hilarious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. EXISTENTIAL ANXIETY ABOUT PASSING THE BATON OF DIVINE RULE FROM ONE MONARCH TO THE NEXT*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamlet<\/em> somehow manages to be all three, which is why it’s one of Shakespeare’s most complex tragedies. The plot is not simply a straight shot between Point A (everything’s fine) to Point B (everyone’s dead); we have to make a few pit stops along the way at \u201ccontemplating mortality\u201d and \u201csomeone got stabbed by accident.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I bet your default setting, insofar as Hamlet<\/em> is concerned, is \u201cconfused.\u201d That’s because, well, Hamlet<\/em> can be confusing. I’m here to make it less confusing, or at least sort of funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 10<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 11<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 12<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

See all of our Blogging the Classic series right here!<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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