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Introduction
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Hamlet
- A Review
Gone,
but not forgotten
Is the "something that was rotten
In the State of Denmark" lo, these ages past.
For somewhere every day it
Is for sure someone will say it
And poor Yorick once again will get "alas-ed"
Ophelia
will go mad
And Laertes' pompous dad
Will recite his list of things to do, or note,
A list which isn't wrong,
But it is so bloody long
That you'll wonder if Laertes missed his boat.
When
the eponymic son
Tells his Ma to be a nun,
He'll spot someone behind the arras, spying.
He'll stab it with his dirk,
Give the curtain back a jerk,
And there will be Polonius, a-dying.
When
Laertes gits da woid
He'll be very much annoyed
That his Dad is dead and sister's off her trolley.
And he'll vow that he will skewer
That princely evil-doer
Who perpetrated this outrageous folly.
In
the final duel's clatter
Comes resolving of the matter,
And "to be or not to be" is answered neatly.
For it's plain Hamlet recites
Much more ably than he fights,
And he's perforated swiftly, and completely.
But
though the Dane is dead
Remember what I said,
He's become the property of all the ages.
And a thousand resurrectors,
Namely, actors and directors,
Will re-tell his story on the ages' stages.
Copyright;
Tad
Lawson
Email:
tagady@aol.com
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