Well I think you are going to be disappointed. They never answer the difficult questions or comment on anything that doesn't fit into their deluded narrative.
not quite, it seems to promote a view that players are only for their value, that we want to enhance his value and make more profit. i think we want to benefit from his playing ability.
Nope, lost me again. The monologue you quote is about Hamlet's disappointment with mankind. Like many of his monologues, when you boil it down, it doesn't really matter who on stage he is addressing. He's really addressing the audience. R&G are just stooges. Their casting doesn't change anything about the meaning of the play, nor the speech you quote. Even the joke, such as it is, doesn't depend for meaning on who Hamlet may be addressing. R&G's emptiness as characters and lack of agency was obviously one of the motivations for Stoppard to choose them as suitable characters for his comedy.
All Brighton have said is that he’s not for sale. There has been no valuation.
You seem to be confusing a soliloquy with a speech to another character. It isn't a monologue but a dialogue, and the fact that it expresses his disillusionment with mankind is irrelevant to the point I am making that the sexual innuendo at the end is completely altered, dramatically if the person addressed is a woman not a man.
You have to savage the text to turn these two old school "fellows" into women. What about the boys will be boys crude word plays on the female vagina?
Guildenstern: On fortunes' cap we are not the very button
Hamlet: Nor the soles of her shoe?
Guildenstern: Neither, my lord
Hamlet: Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favour?
Guildenstern: Faith, her privates we.
When he meets them for the very first time he says:
"My excellent good friends. How dost thou, Guildenstern? Ah Rosencrantz - good lads how do ye both?"
Why not go the whole hog in rewriting it and have him say "good ladies how do ye both?"
Then you could change all the times he calls them "sir" (too many to cite).
So that a famous exchange would become:
Rosencrantz: Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do freely bar the door of your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend.
Hamlet: Madam, I lack advancement.
It is a laughable. I thought there was "nothing but the text?"
Not for sale now certainly, but it's still a very reasonable article. I doubt if many of us think White will be with us for the rest of his career - the expectation/hope is that he will stay at the Albion for a season or two, and assuming he turns out as good as it seems he is going to be will then be sold to a big club (i.e. much bigger than Leeds!) for a much larger fee than we might get for him now.
The speculated figures in the article are not unreasonable - though perhaps a bit on the low side. Forget all the 'He loves Leeds' tripe from theWaccoe twatters - yes, Leeds do want him to improve their chances of staying up, but they also want to snap him up now for a bargain £22M (allegedly) with a view to selling him on for a massive profit in two or three years time.
How long did you spend on Google researching 'Responses to online arguments about Hamlet'?
How long did you spend on Google researching 'Responses to online arguments about Hamlet'?
I spent two years of my life studying Hamlet in the Sixth Form and very enjoyable it was too. It is a play I know back to front, although obviously I have to look up exact quotations as my memory is not what it was. I can still recite great chunks of it though, and silently speak the character's lines before they do in the theatre. I studied it before Google was invented, that is why I know it so well, perhaps.
And that was my earlier point. It is an inexhaustible source of pleasure which lasts a whole lifetime. Why don't (many) bog standard comprehensives seem capable of teaching to the same depth, nowadays? Or rather, why don't the A Level exams demand it?
Not for sale now certainly, but it's still a very reasonable article. I doubt if many of us think White will be with us for the rest of his career - the expectation/hope is that he will stay at the Albion for a season or two, and assuming he turns out as good as it seems he is going to be will then be sold to a big club (i.e. much bigger than Leeds!) for a much larger fee than we might get for him now.
The speculated figures in the article are not unreasonable - though perhaps a bit on the low side. Forget all the 'He loves Leeds' tripe from theWaccoe twatters - yes, Leeds do want him to improve their chances of staying up, but they also want to snap him up now for a bargain £22M (allegedly) with a view to selling him on for a massive profit in two or three years time.
Every time there is speculation on his value, there are accusations of Brighton being greedy money grabbers.
Brighton has acted with class and dignity throughout and politely said, he’s not for sale.
I spent two years of my life studying Hamlet in the Sixth Form and very enjoyable it was too. It is a play I know back to front, although obviously I have to look up exact quotations as my memory is not what it was. I can still recite great chunks of it though, and silently speak the character's lines before they do in the theatre. I studied it before Google was invented, that is why I know it so well, perhaps.
And that was my earlier point. It is an inexhaustible source of pleasure which lasts a whole lifetime. Why don't (many) bog standard comprehensives seem capable of teaching to the same depth, nowadays? Or rather, why don't the A Level exams demand it?
I thought there was "nothing but the text?"
I spent two years of my life studying Hamlet in the Sixth Form and very enjoyable it was too. It is a play I know back to front, although obviously I have to look up exact quotations as my memory is not what it was. I can still recite great chunks of it though, and silently speak the character's lines before they do in the theatre. I studied it before Google was invented, that is why I know it so well, perhaps.
And that was my earlier point. It is an inexhaustible source of pleasure which lasts a whole lifetime. Why don't (many) bog standard comprehensives seem capable of teaching to the same depth, nowadays? Or rather, why don't the A Level exams demand it?
I spent two years of my life studying Hamlet in the Sixth Form and very enjoyable it was too. It is a play I know back to front, although obviously I have to look up exact quotations as my memory is not what it was. I can still recite great chunks of it though, and silently speak the character's lines before they do in the theatre. I studied it before Google was invented, that is why I know it so well, perhaps.
And that was my earlier point. It is an inexhaustible source of pleasure which lasts a whole lifetime. Why don't (many) bog standard comprehensives seem capable of teaching to the same depth, nowadays? Or rather, why don't the A Level exams demand it?