Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum

Author:Robert McCrum [McCrum, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Figures, Performing Arts, theater, General, Literary Criticism, Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781643137902
Google: ZBEeEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-09-07T23:36:01.597440+00:00

Next, he personalizes his confession. ‘Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost… [1.5.95–6]’. This urgent dramatization of memory becomes a short route into Hamlet’s introspection. Shakespeare’s concern as a playwright is to grapple with Hamlet’s state of mind. His audience becomes trapped in the vortex of a new sensation, the tragedy in which Shakespeare explores both a new language, and a new sensibility. From the arresting moment of Hamlet’s first soliloquy, the Globe was pitched into a radically unfamiliar universe of dramatic self-consciousness:

O that this too too solid flesh would melt,

Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,

Or that the Everlasting had not fixed

His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God, O God,

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable

Seem to me all the uses of this world!

[1.2.129–34]

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