{"id":1182,"date":"2011-11-13T23:38:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T04:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2011-11-13T23:38:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T04:38:50","slug":"how-do-you-make-hamlet-even-more-tragic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Make <b>Hamlet<\/b> Even More Tragic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do what the grad students in Shakespeare Studies at Mary Baldwin did in the performance I saw tonight (directed by Zach Brown):<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Leave out Fortinbras entirely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Have Horatio ignore Hamlet&#8217;s plea at the end of the play, drink the poison, and die. His last words were, of course, &#8220;The rest is silence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The result: I believe Osric is the only member of the upper classes left alive to inherit the throne. The accession of King Osric I would be a truly tragic outcome.<\/p>\n<p>If any of my readers are in the Shenandoah Valley, there is a second performance tomorrow night at 7:30. The theater&#8217;s website is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanshakespearecenter.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do what the grad students in Shakespeare Studies at Mary Baldwin did in the performance I saw tonight (directed by Zach Brown): 1. Leave out Fortinbras entirely. 2. Have Horatio ignore Hamlet&#8217;s plea at the end of the play, drink the poison, and die. His last words were, of course, &#8220;The rest is silence&#8221;. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackfriars-playhouse","category-theater-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}