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- “To Be Or Not To Be”: Hamlet Act III, scene 1; Brush Up Your Shakespeare: 011
What’s eating Hamlet? That’s what everyone at court is trying to figure out! As the play progresses, the new king, Claudius, gets closer and closer to discovering Hamlet’s secret–that Hamlet has somehow figured out that Claudius murdered his way to the throne by killing Hamlet’s father!
22 min - “O What a Rogue and Peasant Slave am I”: Soliloquy: Brush Up Your Shakespeare: 010
After having gone over this famous soliloquy from Hamlet Act II, scene 2 in the regular podcast, I take some time out here to perform the soliloquy. The rendition may not be stellar, but the soliloquy itself is one of the greatest in the English language!
5 min - “Brevity is the Soul of Wit”: Hamlet, Act II, scene 2a: Brush Up Your Shakespeare: 008
Join us as we continue our exploration of the greatest of all Shakespeare plays: Hamlet!
17 min - Hamlet Act II, scene 1: “By Indirections Find Directions Out”: Brush Up Your Shakespeare: 007
In today’s scene, we find Polonius, the King’s counselor, being sneaky and using spies to gain information. It is a habit that not only contrasts with the “wise” Polonius we have already seen in Act I, it is a practice that will eventually lead to his death.
Then his daughter, Ophelia, tells Polonius about an alarming encounter she just had with an emotionally overwrought Hamlet. Polonius believes this shows Hamlet is madly in love with his daughter, and rushes off to tell the King all about it.
21 min - More Things in Heaven and Earth: Hamlet Act I, scene 5: Brush Up Your Shakespeare: 006
The Ghost of Hamlet’s father, the former King of Denmark, finally delivers his message to Hamlet.
It is a message of evil, murder, deceit and revenge!
It’s enough to drive a bloke bonkers!
22 min - Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark: Hamlet, Act I, scene 4: Brush Up Your Shakespeare: 005
Act I, scene 4 finds us back on the castle battlements in the middle of the night keeping watch with Hamlet and Horatio for the Ghost of the dead king. Will the Ghost appear? And if the Ghost does appear, what will it say?
Join us to find out!
14 min - Hamlet, Act I, scene 3: Brush Up Your Shakespeare: 004
Join us as we dive into another scene from the most famous of all Shakespeare plays, “Hamlet!”
“To thine own self be true!”
18 min - Hamlet: Act I, scene 2: A Little More than Kin and Less than Kind: Brush Up Your Shakespeare: 003
Making Shakespeare fun and easy!
Join us with our exploration of Hamlet in this overview of Act I, scene 2! 7ipgGMXfmkUUSFfVbJZ1
20 min - Hamlet, Act I, scene 1: Brush Up Your Shakespeare: 002
Today we jump with both feet into the first scene of Hamlet! What other play has a ghost appearing not once, but twice, in the very first scene?! Hamlet is the best play ever written!
19 min - Hamlet–Introduction: Brush Up Your Shakespeare:001
Join us as we make Shakespeare fun, easy and fabulous! The way it was meant to be!
We begin this series with an introduction to the greatest of all Shakespeare plays–HAMLET!
12 min
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