Why?

So why a(nother) blog about Hamlet?  Ultimately I blame one of my college English professors.

I read the play for the first time in high school twenty years ago.  Strangely enough, I had read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead two years earlier.  It made much more sense once I had read Hamlet.  I came across both again in college.  A few years after graduation, I found out that a former professor was teaching a course on Hamlet.  That was it.  An entire semester-long course on one play.  Well, I was already a fan of the play.  I had already begun collecting different versions of it.  This cemented things, though.

That was a few years back.  Since then, I figure that I have seen the work live no fewer than a half dozen times and in film presentations at least the same.  That doesn't begin to describe the various adaptations and offshoots I have come across.

In a recent discussion with that same professor about Hamlet (what else?), he suggested that a blog could be a good idea.  Other fans of the play might be interested in my experiences and research.  I got to thinking that he might be right. I took a look and found several blogs dedicated to Hamlet.  Undeterred, though, I decided to forge ahead.  We'll see how it goes.