The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm by Alberto Manguel

Author:Alberto Manguel [Manguel, Alberto]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780812245233
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Like Hamlet, Horatio too is a young intellectual (a word that acquires its modern meaning in Shakespeare’s time), a student at the University of Wittenberg who, in spite of confessing to a “truant disposition,” is undoubtedly a scholar—“friends, scholars and soldiers”²⁹ Hamlet calls him and Marcellus. Recalling a 1929 production of the play, John Gielgud observed that, in the “moving and convincing” opening scene, the sentinels on the tower, “old and bearded veterans” terrified at the ghost of their old master, showed innocent trust “in the wisdom of the young student Horatio.” Horatio “was cleverer than they and would interpret their fears.”³⁰

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