Hyperion to a Satyr – The Fire and Water Podcast Network’s Hamlet Podcast – continues Siskoid’s scene-by-scene deep dive into Shakespeare’s masterwork, discussing the text, but also performance and staging through the lens of several films, television, comics and even a rock opera. In Act 5, Scene 1, Part 2, Ophelia’s funeral is interrupted by boys leaping into her grave.
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Credits:
Theme: “Fanfare” from 1996 Hamlet, by Patrick Doyle, with a clip from that film, starring Ray Fearon; the 1980 Hamlet, starring Derek Jacobi; and the 1996 Hamlet, starring Kenneth Branagh.
Bonus clips: Hamlet 1996 by Kenneth Branagh, starring Michael Maloney and Kenneth Branagh; Hamlet 1948 by Laurence Olivier, starring Laurence Olivier and Basil Sydney; Hamlet 1980 by Rodney Bennett, starring Patrick Stewart; Hamlet 1990 by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Nathaniel Parker and Mel Gibson; Hamlet 2000 by Michael Almereyda, starring Liev Schreiber and Ethan Hawke; Hamlet 2007 by Alexander Fodor, starring Jason Wing and Alexander Fodor; Hamlet 2009 by Gregory Doran, starring Patrick Stewart and David Tennant; and “Je l’aimais/Il est fou” by Johnny Hallyday.
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I’ve always taken Gertrude’s favorable comments about Ophelia in this scene as an example of how one typically speaks respectfully of the newly dead even if it’s disingenuous. It’s considered tactless and undignified to call an @$$hole an @$$hole right after they die; it’s expected that you find something positive to say, perhaps for the grieving family or perhaps just so you don’t sound callous. I often wonder what will be said about Donald Trump when he dies (because I think of that often). Will his political enemies speak honestly about him, or will they try “to be the better [men]”?