| Description |
This play is a response to Shakespeare's Hamlet. In no way does it attempt to criticize, psychoanalyze, or categorize the characters, explain the action of the play, or make philosophical statements. The play is a reaction, a response elicited from the study of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Robert Montgomery's play, Subject to Fits has served as a model for format in this respect. All quoted passages are paraphrashings or direct quotations from William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, with the exception of a few phrases in the spirit of W. C. Fields and Mae West. I have included stage instructions since it is feasible that the play could be performed on stage. However my intentions are that the play serve as a mental image, envisioned rather than actualized and performed. |
