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Monday, July 10, 2017

.. the name "Hamlet" means ".. no latecomers allowed..".. means.. ".. strict regard for punctuality...".. even in regards to .. Hamlet's uncle's death.. by his father's dread command.. musn't be late for my uncle's death.. in a play.. in a play.. musn't be late in exacting death against good king, smiling king claudius..

... I realized something... Kenneth Branagh really has acted the role of Hamlet all his life and knows him .. Kenneth Branagh knows Hamlet better than most people on the planet.. when I saw "Hamlet" on VHS.. on videocassette.. in my mid-late twenties.. their were things about Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet that denoted an understanding by Kenneth Branagh of the character of Hamlet .. that I honestly did not know at that age.. and that I know now for the very first time .. only in the last five minutes or less do I know some things about the character of Hamlet that Kenneth Branagh already knew when he played him in his movie of Hamlet in the mid-nineties when I was in my mid-late twenties..

... Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet was the noisiest member of the audience of theatre-goers.. during the scene in which the court of Elsinore watch a play.. a play about a murderer named Gonzago.. Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet talks incessantly, loudly.. he yells .. he yells at the actors on the stage.. none of this is consistant with the name "Hamlet".. which means.. "severe, vindictive, rigid, rigorous, punctuality in regard to movie's and plays at the theatre..".. talking loudly during the play while you're in the audience as Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet did .. is antithetical to this.. to the very meaning itself of punctuality and the protocal and ethic of punctuality.. which may have no word or name that means this more than the name.. "Hamlet"...

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