... production is one that is far more rooted in the culture that created Caulfield than the one, which created the classicism of Branagh's four-hour epic. Orson Welles called his Macbeth - "a rough charcoal sketch" and Almereyda characterises his Hamlet as "a collage". This image, that of a "collage" is one that suits Almereyda's vision immensely - the Hamlet of the channel skipping MTV-generation ... ...

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... set of circumstantial facts. In contrast, Edward de Vere's death in 1604 would have bar him from being the author of several majestic tragedies believed written latter such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear; the fact that the quality of de Vere's published earlier poetry likely before 1585 is vastly inferior to that of Shakespeare; the specific knowledge the plays and ... ...

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