Comments on: Hamlet’s Advice to the Players http://www.bardblog.com/hamlets-advice-to-the-players/ Quips, Quibbles, Queries, and Quarks from a Quirky Bardolator Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:02:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gedaly http://www.bardblog.com/hamlets-advice-to-the-players/comment-page-1/#comment-313 Gedaly Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:10:25 +0000 http://www.bardblog.com/?p=152#comment-313 Hamlet's definitely not an ideal or correct about everything, but he seems to have a good understanding about what makes good acting. It's really impossible to know exactly what Shakespeare intended. Perhaps he is, to an extent, parodying the criticisms made at the time by elitist theatre-goers or theatre artists... What's important to me for purposes of learning and teaching is that the speech (regardless of who is saying it and why) is full of great advice to actors. Also when teaching, there's a certain respect that students will give to an acting lesson on Shakespeare, by Shakespeare. Hamlet’s definitely not an ideal or correct about everything, but he seems to have a good understanding about what makes good acting. It’s really impossible to know exactly what Shakespeare intended. Perhaps he is, to an extent, parodying the criticisms made at the time by elitist theatre-goers or theatre artists…

What’s important to me for purposes of learning and teaching is that the speech (regardless of who is saying it and why) is full of great advice to actors.

Also when teaching, there’s a certain respect that students will give to an acting lesson on Shakespeare, by Shakespeare.

]]> By: A.K.Farrar http://www.bardblog.com/hamlets-advice-to-the-players/comment-page-1/#comment-312 A.K.Farrar Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:51:55 +0000 http://www.bardblog.com/?p=152#comment-312 You know - I wonder. Did Shakespeare say this or did he get one of his characters to say it for him - or is he putting into the mouth of a character (whose judgement is not always accurate) the sort of criticism made of his players at the Globe by rivals and a snobbish elite? If Hamlet is not an ideal, while should his words reflect Shakespeare's true thoughts on acting? Just a provocation. You know – I wonder.

Did Shakespeare say this or did he get one of his characters to say it for him – or is he putting into the mouth of a character (whose judgement is not always accurate) the sort of criticism made of his players at the Globe by rivals and a snobbish elite?

If Hamlet is not an ideal, while should his words reflect Shakespeare’s true thoughts on acting?

Just a provocation.

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