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PAVEL ANTOKOLSKY: Hamlet
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Hamlet
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Not from a legend, not from sky lands, He’s just a youth from those times – Though he’s played by the hundred hundreds Good actors, questioning his rights. I’d play him in another manner, Just more disparate and gay: He laughs, as in revenge, whenever His fate set crashes on his way. He saw his funs in many crowds, But youth is very short to stroll Into a man in the applause Of pits, of galleries and stalls. Tho’ dead men were upset and dreary, Tho’ beauties were in tears, else, – All made up roughly, searched and varied All doesn’t count – hasn’t a sense…. And putting fault on his character, His childishness and slow trends, He promptly perishes – the actor, Not played his role to the end. Not from a legend, not from sky lands, He’s understood in every way, Such as that Hamlet – hundred hundreds, Such Hamlet I intend to play. Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, December, 2000
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