I have been noticing that the further our class gets into
Hamlet the more difficult it becomes to understand it. So after a few days of trying to figure out how to make
Hamlet more understandable without I came up with the idea of "recreating" the play and making it a sort of
Law & Order spoof. Nearly all the characters are the same except I changed Claudius into Claudia and Hamlet (the father) into Hannah (it's the closest I could get to Hamlet, sorry!) that way it's more of a femme fatale type of story. So here is just the basic info and I'll have scene one up in a few minutes. Each act of the play shall be represented as days in court (e.g. Act One = Day One in Court, etc.). The prosecution in this story are trying to prove Hamlet guilty of murder, while the defense uses the "insanity" card to prove Hamlet innocent of murder. Hope this helps out!
Scene: A Courtroom
Characters:
- Prosecutor
- Defense Attorney
- Judge Hanson
- Jury
- Horatio
- Marcellus
- Francisco
- Bernardo
- Hamlet (Son)
- Claudia
- Gerry Trudman (Hamlet's Father)
- Polonius
- Laertes
- Ophelia
- A Priest
- A Captain
- Voltimand
- Cornelius
- Reynaldo
- Rosencrantz
- Guildenstern
- Osric
- A Gentleman
- Hannah (Hamlet's Mother)
- Bailiff
- Lord Humphrey (unrelated character that provides an eagle eye view of things)
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