The Marowitz Hamlet
by Charles Marowitz

The Marowitz Hamlet Book Cover
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Highlights

60 mins Medieval (6th-14th Century) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes British

Synopsis

THE STORY: I despise Hamlet.

He is a slob, a talker, an analyser, a rationalizer.

Like the parlour liberal or the paralysed intellectual, he can describe every facet of a problem, yet never pull his finger out.

Considering the play imprisoned by

Press Reviews

"What if one were to cut Shakespeare’s masterpiece up into individual lines and piece it back together to tell the story anew? This would be a Marowitz play."

— Phoenix Theatre

Characters

Character
Hamlet
Captain
Ghost
Ophelia
Queen
King
Clown
Laertes
Polonius
Rosencrantz
Guildenstern
Fortinbras

Publication

Year 2013
Binding Paperback
Pages 49
Place New York, NY
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822226802
ISBN-10 0822226804
LCCN 2013497297
LCC MLCS 2014/43480 (P)

The Marowitz Hamlet is a British play written by Charles Marowitz and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York, NY (2013).

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