Ghosts, Murder, and More Murder – Hamlet Part I: Crash Course Literature 203
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In which +John Green teaches you about Hamlet, William Shakespeare’s
longest and most-performed play. People love Hamlet. The play that is, not
necessarily the character. Hamlet is a Tragedy with a capital T (I guess I
don’t have to point that out, since you can see clearly in the text that
the T was capitalized). By Tragedy, I mean virtually everyone dies at the
end. John will talk a little bit about the history of the play and the
different versions of it that have appeared in the centuries since it was
written. You’ll also learn about some of the big themes in the play, get a
brief plot overview, and the all important connections between Prince
Hamlet and Simba, the Lion King. Seriously though, The Lion King is totally
just a Hamlet musical with animals instead of people.
Ghosts, Murder, and More Murder – Hamlet Part I: Crash Course Literature 203
John Green and Hamlet… I’m going to die from an awesomeness overload.
There’s a Part II also, which I’m starting right now, but here’s Part I.
It is only right now that I noticed the link between “purgatory” and
“purge.” Some Catholic and student of Milton I am!
Timon and Pumbaa are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern!
Helsingör = Elsinore?
Awww….Next week for part 2? this is why I don’t watch television
anymore. >.<
You should do Romeo and Juliet next.
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now i wish i had named my great dane “hamlet” instead of tiberius. oh well,
when he has puppies…there will be hamlet!
im sorry I respect Shakespeare but I just don’t get it!!!! even mr.
john green cant make me enjoy Shakespeare. do English majors love torturing
themselves? :P
Question: why are the “best” plays and stories about narcissistic pricks?
I have never heard/read/seen the story.
Yesterday I read a comment on youtube saying somthing like: “The lion king
= Hamlet. The lion king two = Romeo and Juliet”. I has to ask my little
sister because she had read Hamlet/amlet. I has a little choked/surprised.
But then again Disney often (if not always) copy other stories, some more
clear than others.
Those Danmark stereotype. xD
Yes we play a lot of handball. But I believe we eat more Rugbrød (Rye
bread) than Danish Pastry. I had to google Pastry, because I didn’t know
the english word. I thought: John? What are you talking about?… Well It
looks like Wienerbrød.
And I was right. :)
Why does John Green from the past has a t-shirt of a book that John Green
of the future wrote in the future? Does John Green has a time machine wich
allows him to bring himself from the past to the future. So he could teach
himself to stop being annoying and start being intelligent as the John
Green that we know today? So what we’re watching is not John Green talking
to us but to himself. That makes perfect sense!
Ophelia didn’t kill herself. She might’ve been intending to do so by
climbing up the tree, but the branch brok and she fell into the river and
drowned. Gertrude even says so, she was an eyewitness (which could also
mean that she had something to do with it)
spanisg TIFIOS shirt….
Was Horation a spy and if so for whom?
“This machine kills Fascists.”
That is one powerful computer xD
I know it is long, but I do love the Kenneth Branagh film version – it is
so gorgeous.
I thought the Lion King was based off MacBeth
How does Young John own a shirt from the future
Why was denmark gearing up for a war with norway? Norway was already danish
at the time.
Yeah…A lot of “Shakespeare’s” work is unbelievably close to other works
published shortly before his.
In fact, it’s interesting how you brought up The Lion King considering how
close it is to Kimba the White Lion.
Oh man, I have to imagine that having John Green as a teacher would be both
awesome and full of information.
should it be called art if it bores you to death?
There’s a 2006 Chinese film version loosely based on Hamlet called “The
Banquet” (also released as “Legend of the Black Scorpion”) , which I
recommend.
Even if you don’t like it, it’ll still give you a worthy chance for
comparison, on how the same story could be portrayed differently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Banquet_(2006_film)