Posted by Anne Onymous on Thu, 07/03/2003 - 9:44pm.
Archived comment by umrguy:
From Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign):
"So in the play, Prince Hamlet comes home for his father's funeral, to find that his mother has married his uncle. ...Hamlet gets a tip-off that his old man was murdered by the uncle. Unfortunately, he can't tell if his informant is telling truth or lies. So he spends the next five acts blundering around getting nearly the whole cast killed while he dithers."
Still one of the greatest descriptions of Hamlet I've ever read....
From Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign):
"So in the play, Prince Hamlet comes home for his father's funeral, to find that his mother has married his uncle. ...Hamlet gets a tip-off that his old man was murdered by the uncle. Unfortunately, he can't tell if his informant is telling truth or lies. So he spends the next five acts blundering around getting nearly the whole cast killed while he dithers."
Still one of the greatest descriptions of Hamlet I've ever read....