Aside from its tremendous dramatic enjoyment, Slings & Arrows provides several answers to the question "What is Hamlet?" As I hope that the posts on this blog have displayed, there are as many answers to that question as there are people who have seen or read the play. Presented below, for your consideration, are several opinions on the subject from characters in the series.
"The ineffable tragedy of the human spirit that still resonates, even today" (Nahum)
"This
play is dead...[It] has been dead for over 300 years...[It has been] strip mined for quotations and propped up like Lenin in his ice cave...[It is] a decomposed vessel somewhere between swamp and sewer." (Darren Nichols)
"Single greatest achievement in Western art" (Geoffrey Tennant)
"Six soliloquies and the rest...is silence" (Geoffrey Tennant)
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