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...In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Polonius has two children: Laertes — and who? Which celebrities are the parents of four sons called Kai, Klay, Kit and Cass?...
...“I am not what I am,” confessed William Shakespeare’s greatest social operator, in a rare moment of candour. Iago would have stormed to victory in Love Island 1603 ....
...The modern media/surveillance society comprises not just the CCTV screens on which the Ghost first appears and Danish news reports on the Fortinbras subplot; Polonius wears a wire when trying to draw Hamlet...
...in plastic curtains, they stab, clobber and splice: Cleopatra writhes in an absurd erotic dance with asps for nipple tassels; characters from Titus are merrily shoved into an enormous mincing machine; Polonius...
...Why reduce the role of Jim Norton’s Polonius and cut his best speeches down?...
...He is not available for selfies afterwards, does not say “the game is afoot, Polonius” and has absolutely refused to photobomb Laertes....
...Europe’s banks seem to be listening to the counsel of his Polonius, refusing to take up their allocation of long-term money from the European Central Bank....
...The past is never dead, said William Faulkner, it’s not even past. Rarely has the gap between the public’s perception and that of economists been greater....
...Rees-Mogg confesses to being a bit of a Polonius at times and making bad editorial calls but, overall, there are few regrets....
...Adrian Turpin is director of the Wigtown Book Festival The Borrower, by Rebecca Makkai, William Heinemann, RRP£12.99, 336 pages...
...If anything, he was too industrious (”Hamlet edited by Polonius” was Muriel Bradbrook’s sour comment). He was wedded to the single “best text” theory....
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