 | Loerke (49)
09/20/2007 | Shakespeare's longest play, but the one in which there's the least amount of action. It's a play about inaction, about using indirections to find directions out. The true pleasure is the language and, as irishgit said, Shakespeare's structural ingenuity. I remember poring over my edition in junior year of high school. There were so many notes that it took days and days to read, but I was enchanted by all that strange and beautiful talk.
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 | irishgit (146)
09/20/2007 | A great play and a great read, full of stuff that most highschool students and teachers miss.
Some hilarious sexual innuendo in a number of scenes, to balance the brutal tragedy being unfolded.
And the structural genius of the play within a play, and the dialogue in counterpoint is one of the most brilliant sequences in English literature.
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