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Monday, March 19, 2007
At Shakespeare festival, hung jury leaves Hamlet in limbo
Seattle Times Newspaper: "The question of Hamlet's sanity remains unanswered after a Washington jury delivered an evenly split verdict on whether he should be held criminally responsible for the fatal stabbing of Polonius."
This was a genious idea. To have our current justice system analysize a Hamlet's situation, just has me on the edge of my seat. It is so interesting to see how our society relates to that of Shakespeare's. It was also very interesting that the Jury was split evenly down the middle, what does that say about our approach to modern crime? I keep finding myself thinking about also working in politics or our justice system along with theatre. That is if I make it out of CMU alive. haha
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This was a genious idea. To have our current justice system analysize a Hamlet's situation, just has me on the edge of my seat. It is so interesting to see how our society relates to that of Shakespeare's. It was also very interesting that the Jury was split evenly down the middle, what does that say about our approach to modern crime? I keep finding myself thinking about also working in politics or our justice system along with theatre. That is if I make it out of CMU alive. haha
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