I Hate Hamlet | Rudnick's Play and Popular Culture
Remy is a freelance writer in Warrington, Florida. In the following essay, Remy examines the ways in which Rudnick’s play comments upon popular culture.
As a play, I Hate Hamlet is a comedy, a melodrama, a send-up of tradition and grandeur, a contrast between high and low culture, yet as a commentary on many of the ideas that pervade contemporary popular culture, it remains a biting satire. From the opening scene, there exists a juxtaposition between the characters’ expectations and their methods for realizing them, a dichotomy that makes for amusing, playful entertainment. Often, it seems that willpower alone is enough to communicate with the dead or transform the career of a TV actor into that of a theatrical star,...
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