[lbo-talk] Lack of left due to prescription drugs?

[C. G. Estabrook]

And that view makes sense only if you remove politics from the play, as both the 
critical and the playing traditions have done - contrary to the playwright's 
obvious intention - to the point that the awful Olivier film begins with an 
insistent voice-over, "This is a story of a man who couldn't make up his mind"!

On 5/25/11 12:45 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> That (view of Hamlet) was invented by Coleridge, who used the play as a 
> mirror. I think it's a distortion of the play, confirmed by slow-moving 
> production of drama the last few centuries. Acted out as rapidly as was 
> probably the case in 1600, with formulaic presentation of emotion, no one 
> would ever see it that way.
>
> Carrol
>
> On 5/25/2011 12:12 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dennis Claxton"<ddclaxton at earthlink.net>
>>
>>
>> "Depression is anger turned inward." Dr. Melfi
>>
>> Google turns up a couple hundred thousand results when you enter this
>> phrase. How old is it anyway?
>>
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>> Well, articulated in this way it goes back to Freud; but as a more general 
>> thing, I'd say you first see it acted out in Hamlet.
>>
>> Joanna
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