Hamlet’s
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Marco Bevilacqua
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The
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The works of William Shakespeare have always fascinated audiences around the world. We are witnessing continuous representations of his comedies and tragedies. But the purpose of this project is to bring out from the stage those emotions so strong that can born only from his words. The intensity of the tragedy of Hamlet, the longest among the works of Shakespeare, is the only one of its kind. Puns of Hamlet, always having multiple meanings, making it probably one of the characters that deserve more attention in the theatrical landscape. It is interesting to note that the most important exponent of english literature Renaissance era has never traveled to Elsinore, in Denmark, to view the place in which he would set his greatest drama. The same applies to Romeo and Juliet.’s drama. We know the writer was made to tell by english actors who had gone to play about the structure of the castle. To refine the detail, Shakespeare was taught by some Danish, but never set foot in Denmark! It could almost say that the castle of Elsinore owes its fame of the British author, because until the 18th century was only a tollhouse, given to its close proximity to the Sweden coast. Any ship that wanted to cross the strait was obliged to pay a fee, seeing braced against the cannons of the fortress. It was conquered and then in the second half of the 17th century by the Swedish who detained her for two years, plundering of all goods. Once recaptured, the Danish monarchs decided to make it as a royal residence, renovating and re-built the fortress and the largest ballroom in Europe. The aim of the photography project is therefore to show the mental prison of Hamlet related to rhetoric and philosophy. Points of Elsinore has to be gloomy, dark, full of mystery and anger. The portfolio is made of two parts: the first one related to places outside of the castle and another linked instead to the psychological turmoil of the protagonist. The path then starts outside the fortress, the towers where he was spotted the ghost of his murdered until the slit flooded with light, the symbol of salvation of the soul of Hamlet. If the work of Shakespeare offers no moral or ethical truth, but shows life from a much broader perspective than has ever been done before, the portfolio is meant to be a journey to find peace with themselves, not without going through dark and winding roads.
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Elsinore’s castle
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Last night of all, When yond same star that’s westward from the pole Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one,--
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What art thou that usurp’st this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!
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The
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To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause.
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O, I die, Horatio; The potent poison quite o’ercrows my spirit: I cannot live to hear the news from England; But I do prophesy the election lights
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