February 2011
12 posts
Literary Mixtape: What's on Hamlet's Ipod? →
flavorwire.com
No one’s got it rougher than Hamlet. His father is murdered by his power-hungry uncle, who then assumes the throne and marries his mother. His girlfriend becomes increasingly hysterical (probably at least partially due to Hamlets own treatment of her) and drowns herself. And then there’s the whole being haunted by his father’s ghost thing. Hamlet, the depressive, grieving borderline-psychotic that he is, wouldn’t listen to anything other than intense, dark songs, though they might run the gamut of negative emotions. Here are the songs we think he’d plot, give monologues, and pull back the bloody curtains to.
—Emily Temple, Flavorwire
