Comments on: The Beards of Hamlet

By: eden

eden — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:37:56 +0000

F-ing hilarious! Just fell in love with you. (Intellectually, not romantically. But you have made me wish I’d married someone even half as amusing.)

jedediah — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:17:48 +0000

Agreed. But what are we to make of Laurence Olivier’s beardless Hamlet? Surely it means something.

I’ll add Hamlet 2 to the agenda. Thank you, Joe!

Joe Hunt — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:00:16 +0000

Good work!

I was thinking along the same lines a month ago, b/c teaching Hamlet.

But didn’t consider minor characters–just one Hamlet to the next. It seems standard–have to have some facial hair, to be Hamlet.

I like Branagh’s goatee better than Mel Gibson’s full beard, for example.