Joyce makes Stephen very critical of WS's representation of women, in the
library scene of Ulysses, no grammatical ambiguities intended there btw, he
does, if I recall, hark on both the incest theme and the need for mother,
I'd be very interested to hear your views on this expanded, what one can say
as an aside is of course that WS's theatre had no female actors so there is
inevitably something of the 'boy-women' about the roles.
Which is to imply that the characterizations were based on practical
exigencies.
Best
Dave
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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: Shrinking Shakespeare, and other provocations
At 1:50 PM +0000 1/26/03, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>I'm not sure where this started, but it can be
>located in the fifties in the SF film _The Forbidden Planet_, where Caliban
>is The Thing From Beyond The Id and Ariel is (re)cast as Robbie the Robot.
>Morbius is almost mind-numbingly (repressed) incestuous. Has to rate with
>Olivier's I-Love-Mummy _Hamlet_.
I had forgotten about Forbidden Planet, though I watched it not so
long ago - what an enjoyably crappy film that is! To be fair,
though, there's a bit of justification for arguing incestuous
feelings in Hamlet; the bitterness towards his mother for remarrying
segues so quickly towards bitterness towards Ophelia, for instance:
and that scene where he calls her a whore. And so on. I saw a great
production (Moscow Arts Theatre) of The Seagull once which called in
Hamlet as an allusion, in the relationship between Arkadina and her
son and its repressed incestuous jealousy.
Best
A
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