http://www.metafilter.com/tags/matteo Posts tagged with 'matteo' at MetaFilter. Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:07:41 -0800 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:07:41 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/60550/Shakespeares%2DBirthday%2Dand%2Dhis%2DMasterpiece%2DHamlet To honor the <a href="http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/12/12">Greatest's</a> birthday, one could consider his greatest work by reading this <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/35974/Cold-fearful-drops-stand-on-my-trembling-flesh">excellent post by matteo</a> which touches upon the religious issues facing our <a title="Article on the confusing status of revenge in Protestant morality" href="http://hfriedberg.web.wesleyan.edu/wescourses/2005f/engl205/01/tragedies/hamlet1.htm">confused</a> <a title="From matteo's post, an article by Stephen Greenblat" href="http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0701/hamlet.htm">Protestant hero</a>, the student at <a title="The historical importance of including Wittenberg, the only school ever specifically named by Shakespeare, and mentioned 4 times in case we don't get the point." href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/hamlet/learning/historical.html">Wittenberg</a>, who <a title="and yet, TO ME, what is this quintessence of dust?" href="http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/hamlet.2.2.html">doubts</a> <a title="Oration on the Dignity of Man, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; cf. What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!" href="http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Mirandola/">orthodoxy</a>, cannot decide <a title="I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so, to punish me with this and this with me, that i must be their scourge and minister." href="http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/hamlet.3.4.html"> if he is</a> a <a title="Hamlet as Scourge" href="http://fred.ccsu.edu:8000/archive/00000055/02/etd-2003-10.html">scourge</a> or <a title="Annotation on scourge and ministers" href="http://www.leoyan.com/global-language.com/ENFOLDED/output4.php?file=HWORKS2500/HW-2551cn.xml">minister</a>, but ultimately accedes to a <a title="There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will." href="http://www.leoyan.com/global-language.com/ENFOLDED/output4.php?file=HWORKS3500/HW-3509_351cn.xml">belief</a> in <a title="Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. if it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?" href=http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/hamlet.5.2.html> divine</a> <a title="Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows." href="http://www.bartleby.com/108/40/10.html#26">Providence</a>. <b>Or</b>, if you would rather dive into an <strike>intriguing</strike> <strike>amusing</strike> <strike>royally f'ed up</strike> "unique" analysis of the play, check out this <a href="http://www.geocities.com/shakesp_marlowe/index.html">extensive theory</a> (?) <small>[<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060208151115/http://www.geocities.com/shakesp_marlowe/index.html">cache</a>]</small> of Hamlet which corrects our accepted and flawed interpretation by explaining that a literal reading of the play tells us, among other things, that King Hamlet was never killed; that Horatio--our narrator--is the King's son and prince Hamlet's half brother; that the guy we incorrectly think of as Claudius is in fact King Hamlet; and that prince Hamlet's father is Fortinbras. Oops. Boy do we have egg on our faces. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.60550 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:07:41 -0800 hamlet horatio literature matteo minister protestant Providence scourge shakespeare wittenberg dios