In the late 16th century, a leather worker’s son named William Shakespeare sat at his wooden table, pulled out his paper and quill, and embarked on one of the few plays he ever wrote that was not significantly ripped off from other material — a “reimagining,” as we’d say in Hollywood today. Its title was The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Among the play’s singular contributions were a host of words and expressions that nobody had ever heard of, or at least put onstage before then. Besmirched. Barefaced. Buzzer. Rant. Pander. None of them would be familiar to us
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- 7/25/2016
- by Stephen Galloway
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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