Friday, March 23, 2007
Method or Madness? Jury Decides Hamlet's Fate
NPR: "Was Hamlet criminally responsible for mistakenly killing his ex-girlfriend's father, Polonius? That is the question argued in a mock trial Thursday, as part of a Shakespeare festival in Washington, D.C., where lawyers Abbe Lowell and Miles Ehrlich presented oral arguments before a jury."
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These people diagnosed Hamlet with a mental disorder? I find that almost absurd... I'm sure Shakeaspeare wasn't writing and thinking... "hey! lets give the kid a mental disorder!" ...more importantly... how can you even diagnosis someone completely with such minor info... it's not like we had psycholanalytical sessions with the kid or anything... BAH!
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