Hamlet, Act 1

Harvard FAS

Students will gain facility with reading, speaking, performing, and directing Shakespeare through a simple task: attempting to stage the first act of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Hamlet comes with a lot of baggage. First performed in 1601, the subject of infinite interpretation and adaptation, it sits squarely at the center of Anglophone culture, considered the greatest English play by the English language's greatest playwright. But underneath all that baggage there's a script, a script that…