Hamlet: The Rest is Violence
...what can one say about the Melancholy Dane that hasn\u2019t already been said? It\u2019s the big one, the work that casts the longest shadow in all of English literature outside of the King James Bible. We quote it without thinking. It helped inspire The Lion King. And its most famous soliloquy has launched a thousand parodies. Will and James break down the epic monologues, the bloody action, the meditations on mortality, depression, mental illness, tortured love affairs, murder, suicide, conspiracy, invasion, and a savagely bloody denouement in which (spoiler alert!) everyone dies. // CREDITS // Intro Music: Jon Sayles, "The Witches' Dance" (composed by anonymous); Outro Music: Jon Sayles, \u201cSaltarello\u201d (composed by anonymous); Illustrative Excerpts: \u201cTales from the Public Domain,\u201d The Simpsons, dir., Mike B. Anderson (2002); \u201cHamlet,\u201d feat. Kenneth Branagh, dir. Kenneth Branagh (1996); John Gielgud,\u201cAges of Man,\u201d Caedmon Records (1959); \u201cHamlet,\u201d feat. Clarence Smith, dir. Simon Godwin, Royal Shakespeare Company (2016); \u201cHamlet,\u201d feat. Bill Murray, dir. Michael Almereyda (2000); \u201cHamlet,\u201d feat. Andrew Scott, dir. Robert Icke (2017); \u201cHamlet,\u201d feat. David Tennant, dir. Gregory Doran (2009)