I weirdly feel that productions of Hamlet tend to underinvest in how specifically misogynist Hamlet is, at least through act III or IV. Like, he's a bit of a misanthrope, sure, but he hates his mother---and women generally---with a specific, gendered, man-hating-woman hatred.
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This isn't to say, of course, that only a man could play Hamlet, or even that he has to be played by/as a cisgender man. But it is to say that understanding his misogyny clarified a lot of the play for me. He spends a LOT of the first soliloquy calling Gertrude a bitch, basically
5:14 PM - 12 Feb 2018
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