(We’re mashing up current events with Hamlet, the whole play, and you can start here in the middle or with this post.) The play-within-a-play is proceeding on the stage-within-a-stage, and one of the characters is preparing to run the same set of ballots multiple times through a Dominion voting machine; that is, to murder the Player King: Lucianus: “Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing, Confederate season, else no creature seeing,… Thy natural magic and dire property On wholesome life usurp immediately.”… [He pours poison in the sleeper’s …

‘Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?’: Blogging Hamlet – 21 Read More »

(We’re mashing up current events with Hamlet, the whole play, and you can start here in the middle or with this post.) We’re in the theater that’s inside the theater, watching a play within a play that, 400 years later, an obscure 21st-century blogger has been painfully distorting into a somewhat hallucinatory chronicle of a stolen election. As the audience seats itself, Queen Gertrude calls to her son, who prefers instead to sit beside Ophelia, despite their breakup (by metal more attractive Hamlet means that Ophelia draws him like a …

‘No, good mother, here’s metal more attractive…Lady, shall I sit in your lap?’: Blogging Hamlet – 20 Read More »

(We’re mashing up current events with Hamlet, the whole play, and you can start here in the middle or with this post.) Polonius: “…But yet I do believe The origin and commencement of his grief Sprung from neglected love…. To England send him, or confine him where Your wisdom best shall think.” Claudius: “It shall be so…” Claudius, sensing danger from Hamlet, takes Polonius’ advise to send him to England, ostensibly to demand payment of tribute owed to Denmark under a prior agreement between the countries. This reference to tribute …

The groundlings, who…are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise’: Blogging Hamlet – 19 Read More »