Somehow, this memoir surrounded by the book Middlemarch has not veered into As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet, and (of all things - god help me*) Hamlet.
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*trying so hard to stay focused on this book, and not slip into contemplating just how long Hamlet and Ophelia have known each other...and other things about them.
readinginthedark Weren't Hamlet and Ophelia friends for a long time? I might be remembering this wrong... 6y
GingerAntics @readinginthedark it‘s never explicitly said, but it is alluded to that they have probably known each other since they were kids. Reasonably, they may have been betrothed to each other until Hamlet started acting strangely. Hamlet‘s words alone suggest they were probably sleeping together before he went to University and/or when he came home to visit, but since his father‘s death they haven‘t (maybe he‘s had a headache). 6y
readinginthedark "Maybe he's had a headache." ? That's so funny! I think you're right. The modern movie interpretation with Ethan Hawke and Julia Stiles definitely plays it off that way. 6y
GingerAntics @readinginthedark 😂The Gregory Dorian version with David Tennant plays it that way as well. It‘s not quite as overt as the Ethan Hawk version, but that intimacy and familiarity is definitely there. He‘s got all that anger and rage in there. He‘s probably clenching his teeth. I‘m betting on a headache.🤣 6y
readinginthedark 😂🤣 6y
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