{"id":12136,"date":"2019-11-25T11:59:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T16:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=12136"},"modified":"2019-11-25T00:08:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T05:08:23","slug":"basil-gideon-5-hamlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2019\/11\/25\/basil-gideon-5-hamlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Basil + Gideon #5: Hamlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12137\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/BnG5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"4441\" height=\"6213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/BnG5.png 4441w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/BnG5-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/BnG5-768x1074.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/BnG5-732x1024.png 732w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4441px) 100vw, 4441px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The funny thing about the &#8220;To be or not to be&#8221; speech (which is the one Basil is <em>supposed<\/em> to be giving here) is that it&#8217;s too iconic. In my Shakespeare class we discussed how it can be difficult to understand this speech as both an actor and as a reader\/viewer because it&#8217;s so famous, it&#8217;s lost its meaning. In a way &#8220;to be&#8221; has come to stand as an icon for the entire play. However, Oscar Wilde once said that &#8220;there are as many Hamlet&#8217;s as there are melancholies&#8221;. Which I take to mean that you have to take your own experience with melancholy to your reading of Hamlet and then Hamlet becomes more legible because he is part of you.<\/p>\n<p>Basil + Gideon is an ongoing narrative comic, if this is your first time reading check out the first installment\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2019\/10\/21\/basil-gideon-some-people-hate-endings\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funny thing about the &#8220;To be or not to be&#8221; speech (which is the one Basil is supposed to be giving here) is that it&#8217;s too iconic. In my Shakespeare class we discussed how it can be difficult to understand this speech as both an actor and as a reader\/viewer because it&#8217;s so famous, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2204,"featured_media":12138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1379,944,111,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12139,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136\/revisions\/12139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}