Language and Body Interaction in Theatrical Performances of "Hamlet"
Title: Language and Body Interaction in Theatrical Performances of "Hamlet"
Category: /Business & Economy/Management
Details: Words: 744 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Language and Body Interaction in Theatrical Performances of "Hamlet"
Category: /Business & Economy/Management
Details: Words: 744 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
This essay is an attempt to answer why audiences respond more strongly to watching people interacting in a three dimensional space than on the screen. The keyword is the body.
Let's start with an example of the dumb-show in Hamlet. At the end of the dumb-show Ophelia asks:
OPHELIA What means this, my lord?
HAMLET Marry, this is miching malicho. It means mischief.
Ophelia has difficulty in understanding the dumb-show and asks Hamlet, the director, …showed first 75 words of 744 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 744 total…bemused questions from the King, and answering them in the same enigmatic manner:
CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this?
HAMLET Nothing, but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar (4.3.29-31)
And it goes on. The question of body in Hamlet remains not so much a mousetrap but a maze.
Language and the body in Hamlet (Adamson et al, "Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic language, London, 2001, pp. 173-187)