{"id":170241,"date":"2015-01-30T13:21:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T13:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/30\/quendergeer-generic-nerd-blog\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T06:18:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T06:18:49","slug":"quendergeer-generic-nerd-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/30\/quendergeer-generic-nerd-blog\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-170241 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/30\/quendergeer-generic-nerd-blog\/attachment\/170242\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_myv83nH4wq1qffb7lo1_250-150x138.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/30\/quendergeer-generic-nerd-blog\/attachment\/170243\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_myv83nH4wq1qffb7lo2_250-150x138.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/30\/quendergeer-generic-nerd-blog\/attachment\/170244\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_myv83nH4wq1qffb7lo3_250-150x138.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/30\/quendergeer-generic-nerd-blog\/attachment\/170245\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_myv83nH4wq1qffb7lo4_250-150x138.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/quendergeer.tumblr.com\/post\/109323095773\/generic-nerd-blog-littlemissmutant\" target=\"_blank\">quendergeer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/generic-nerd-blog.tumblr.com\/post\/109282341719\/littlemissmutant-odysseiarex-having-hamlet\" target=\"_blank\">generic-nerd-blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/littlemissmutant.tumblr.com\/post\/72774009466\/odysseiarex-having-hamlet-and-the-ghost\" target=\"_blank\">littlemissmutant<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/odysseiarex.tumblr.com\/post\/72752294796\/having-hamlet-and-the-ghost-communicating-in-sign\" target=\"_blank\">odysseiarex<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/reginalds.tumblr.com\/post\/72183070853\" target=\"_blank\">reginalds<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><small>\u2026having Hamlet and the Ghost communicating in sign language\u2014one might describe it almost as their \u201cprivate\u201d language\u2014also served to produce the (in my experience, unique) effect of putting the father-and-son pair in a sort of psycho-spiritual bubble,\u00a0<em>contra mundum<\/em>; a bubble that excluded all others and highlighted Hamlet\u2019s isolation. The relationship between father and son portrayed in most productions comes across as distant, severe and (on Hamlet\u2019s part) rather worshipful, even awestruck. In this production the father\/son relationship is portrayed as having been loving and paternally intimate, which makes Hamlet\u2019s reaction to his father\u2019s tale of murder all the more harrowing. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Iz1wqoRt5VY\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/sgttanuki.blogspot.com.au\/2010\/09\/hamlet-at-oregon-shakespeare-festival.html\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>]<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"post_tag\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/but-the-only-thing-is-you%27d-have-to-know-the-play-first\" target=\"_blank\">#but the only thing is you\u2019d have to know the play first<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"post_tag\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/which-seems-a-little-exclusionary\" target=\"_blank\">#which seems a little exclusionary<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"post_tag\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/good-reasoning-though\" target=\"_blank\">#good reasoning though<\/a><\/p>\n<p>if i recall correctly, hamlet spoke the ghost\u2019s lines aloud to the audience (you can see his mouth moving in the 3rd gif there). the other time the ghost appears, the closet scene, hamlet didn\u2019t translate but the ghost\u2019s message was conveyed through emotion just as well. there was also a nice moment in the same scene where hamlet tried to speak to his mother through signing \u2014 the private language of their family unit \u2014 and she refused to recognize it.<\/p>\n<p>the actor playing hamlet\u2019s father is deaf, and has been working with the oregon shakespeare festival for several years now, signing in all his roles. obviously i haven\u2019t seen everything he\u2019s been in, but from what i have seen i can tell you that through a combination of body language and actors translating, the meaning is clear even without spoken language.<\/p>\n<p>edit: the actor\u2019s name is howie seago<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I saw Howie Seago at Ashland and he was terrific, some lines are spoken by the scene partner as in this gifset, and others are left un-interpreted if the meaning is fairly clear or can be extrapolated from context.<\/p>\n<p>I love the idea of Gertrude refusing to sign as an indicator that she is totally over the idea of her + Hamlet Sr. + Hamlet Jr. as a family unit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My favorite thing that Seago\u2019s done that Ive seen (though I\u2019m sad I missed Hamlet now) was prolly Richard III. He was Hastings, and his mistress was his translator. This meant that his monologues were instead conversations with his closest confidante, who was a woman of color. They also staged his execution so that his last lines were curses delivered as they were dragged off to be killed. She was taken first, however, so he was left signing to a large group of people who had neither the capability nor interest in hearing what he had to say.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>having hamlet speak the lines maintains (in a gloriously economical way) the possibility that his father\u2019s ghost and his accusations might all be in his head, which is a key ambiguity that most stage productions really struggle to maintain<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>quendergeer: generic-nerd-blog: littlemissmutant: odysseiarex: reginalds: \u2026having Hamlet and the Ghost communicating in sign language\u2014one might describe it almost as their \u201cprivate\u201d language\u2014also served to produce the (in my experience, unique) effect of putting the father-and-son pair in a sort of psycho-spiritual bubble,\u00a0contra mundum; a bubble that excluded all others and highlighted Hamlet\u2019s isolation. 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