tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 06 21:27:43 1997

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RE: bIchuSchoHqu''a'

[email protected] on behalf of Marian Schwartz wrote:
> By the way, the explanation that the going on too long to make the audience
> uneasy in the introduction was rather ingenious, but does this mean that
> the same excuse must be done for the other plays, which undoubtedly go on
> for just as long?

It's really a matter of finding a Klingon interpretation of the events in each 
indivudual play.  In Much Ado About Nothing, the two main storylines are 
Benedick and Beatrice getting together, and the misunderstanding between 
Claudio and Hero.  In the introduction to Hamlet, Nick says that Much Ado is 
one of the Classical plays, in which the characters think and act much as 
Klingons do normally.  This is mostly true in the restoration.  Perhaps the 
way Benedick and Beatrice express themselves to each other once they've fallen 
in love could have been improved (more teeth, violence, parmaq, less 
proclaiming), but otherwise the play is a good Klingon story.  Passion, 
dishonor, war, revenge.

It's not the *length* that bothers Klingons when they watch Hamlet, it's how 
long things go on for before anybody gets killed!  Hamlet, upon hearing of his 
father's murder, *should* have waltzed up to Claudius and challenged him to a 
{vItHay'} immediately.  Instead, he worries and ponders and procrastinates.  
This is the social commentary made by Hamlet, showing the decline of the 
times, and this is why Hamlet is classified as a "Problem Play."

SuStel
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