William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Introduction

[@JDG602]

I just read this play about two weeks ago. It was my first Shakespeare play and I have been obsessed with it since. The hype is warranted. I feel very fortunate to have access to your lectures. Thank you.

[@LitProf]

It’s a brilliant play.

[@BreezeTalk]

Thank you, Dr Masson.

[@BreezeTalk]

Please return soon Dr Masson, the education you provide is leading.

[@jimsteele9559]

Hamlet! I’m one of the ones that thinks it’s the greatest. Another great lecture. The Romantics don’t want to teach, but they are teaching. They deny or replace morality, but that is a moral position. Anyway, nice to get back to actual literature, been bingeing on the theory class till I caught up.

[@TheLookingGlassAU]

I'm reading Dostoevsky's The Idiot at the moment and your comments regarding the artist teaching the audience how to live (so far) rings true in that book. There is a saying people have used "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Thinking about this it seems to me that if a person who claims to be good does nothing in the face of evil, that inaction renders their claim to be good as having no foundation. It's evident though that evil only has deceit, manipulation and force as it's "dunamis" , where as the dunamis of God for salvation is the act of Jesus's sacrifice. I think people in general are equally brutal today as in Dostoyevsky's or Shakespears context, but maralism offers people a cloak to hide their evil behind a facade of theoretical good. Sorry I'm just thinking out load, it might not have much relevance to Hamlet, I haven't read it yet.

[@xmaseveeve5259]

(There is no evidence that 'Socrates' ever lived.)

[@LitProf]

What an odd comment

[@xmaseveeve5259]

Have you done the research? 'Socrates' was a fictional character. @@LitProf

[@xmaseveeve5259]

Thank you. @@LitProf

[@LitProf]

@xmaseveeve5259 I am trying to figure out if you’re serious. A simple search will testify: www.history.com/topics/ancient-greece/socrates

[@xmaseveeve5259]

As long as you're happy...@@LitProf