Comments on: To Be Aware or Not To Be? http://www.bardblog.com/to-be-aware-or-not-to-be/ Quips, Quibbles, Queries, and Quarks from a Quirky Bardolator Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Tim http://www.bardblog.com/to-be-aware-or-not-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Tim Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:33:59 +0000 http://www.bardblog.com/?p=218#comment-447 Totally agree. We were actually talking about this on Friday in the theatre history class I teach. My students and I came to the same conclusion you did - that the speech loses a lot of its power if Hamlet is "performing" and aware of the eavesdroppers. For such a psychological speech in such a psychological play, this is one of those points where we as an audience really need to see what Hamlet is honestly thinking. And in my opinion, the more clearly the two halves of Hamlet are separated in production (the "actor" who is "putting on the antic disposition" vs. the "brooding philosophizer") the better. Great site you have here! Keep it up. Totally agree. We were actually talking about this on Friday in the theatre history class I teach. My students and I came to the same conclusion you did – that the speech loses a lot of its power if Hamlet is “performing” and aware of the eavesdroppers. For such a psychological speech in such a psychological play, this is one of those points where we as an audience really need to see what Hamlet is honestly thinking. And in my opinion, the more clearly the two halves of Hamlet are separated in production (the “actor” who is “putting on the antic disposition” vs. the “brooding philosophizer”) the better.

Great site you have here! Keep it up.

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