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Hamlet is the Elizabethan era version of Patrick Bateman

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Woah hamlet Fanart

Yall ever see a cool mirror set up and go “wow this would make cool hamlet Fanart” ?

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they won’t work it out on the remix because there’s not even going to be a remix

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I watched Hamlet at Elsinore and I adore how they did Hamlets death. I really liked Hamlet clinging onto Horatio and after he dies horatio still holds him somewhat upright before laying him on the ground. I also really liked Hamlet and Horatio really struggling with the cup as Horatio tried to drink the poison and Hamlet tried to get it away from him.

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Genuinely crashing out whenever I see people mischaracterize Hamlet and Horatio

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As much as I love interesting and deep interpretations of Shakespeare’s tragedies that are overly dark and serious, I think I prefer when productions play into the silliness. The basic rule that I was always taught as an actor is that to make someone cry you must make them laugh first, and I think that concept works really well with Shakespeare tragedies. If we see the characters in Hamlet having fun and being silly it makes their tragic ends hit much harder.

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Giggling a bit when watching Hamlet at Elsinore because the actress who played Gertrude was only 3 years older than the actor who played Hamlet

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It’s such a huge compliment when someone who does not know how crazy you are about hamlet tells you that you would make a great hamlet

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Omg that would be fire tbh

I hate those hamlet polls going around asking, for example, “was Gertrude unfaithful to king hamlet?” because I can’t just pick “yes” or “no.” Truthfully I think both are true. Something I love about Hamlet is that there are so many ways to read and understand it. I cannot definitely say one reading is correct over another (albeit with some exceptions) because each production that does something unique with the reading has something different to say and I love that! Maybe in one production Hamlet really loves Ophelia, maybe in another she really wasn’t all that important to him. Maybe in one production Gertrude cheated on King Hamlet, maybe in another she really did love him.

Theatre is versatile like that and it’s part of what makes it so special

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all i want is to play hamlet is that so much to ask?

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I’ll never forget being cast in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) as the character who ends up playing Hamlet and being so happy about it up until my director revealed I was playing hamlet because I was his “gayby” … he called me a gayby… a gay baby. He cast me as the dude who has a mental breakdown while playing hamlet because I was a GAY BABY.

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Sometimes when I’m bored I pull up one of hamlets soliloquies and recite it

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When I first watched Kenneth Branagh hamlet I was so disappointed when I saw hamlet and he looked like that…

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Nothing more tragic than when I’ve gone through every new post in the hamlet tag, I need more.

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I had a nightmare where there were auditions for hamlet but I didn’t know when only to find out they were right now so I ran over there and auditioned and then the cast list came out and my friend got in but I couldn’t find the cast list and I was stressing and then I woke up

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I love writing 5 pages of analysis on hamlets first soliloquy just for the fun of it

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I cannot decide on one characterization of Hamlet. I would have to play him or direct Hamlet 20 times if I were to ever express how I see the character.