MY REACTIONS TO THE HAMLET COMIC STRIP—CONTEMPORARY HAMLETS.

MY REACTIONS TO THE HAMLET COMIC STRIP—CONTEMPORARY HAMLETS. Although Shakespeare is often spoken of as a man for all ages, it is still startling to see how well productions of his plays set in the present work. Paul Giamatti can do a Hamlet who is very much a 21st century American, and it works. Zach Weiner’s comic strip shows that the character of Hamlet can be analyzed with psychological terms that have been coined very recently (“antisocial geek”, “nonempathic’, “loser”). There must have been people in the past who could be considered as antisocial geeks today, but offhand I can’t think of any other writer in earlier centuries who created characters who were antisocial geeks.