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Fri, 28 Mar 1997 06:57:53 GMT
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*****  Well, the play-within-a-play and resulting commentary is also
straight out of "Hamlet."  (Borges was fascinated by the idea and wrote
about it several times.)
 
Lang Thompson
http://members.aol.com/wlt4/index.htm
 
 
 
In <Pine.GSO.3.95.970327171529.5087E-100000@nova> "D. R. Smith"
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>
>I rented the movie "A Midwinter's Tale" (written and directed by
Kenneth
>Branagh) over the weekend and found it very entertaining.  It is about
an
>out-of-work actor who decides to direct an avant-garde production of
>"Hamlet" (in a small English village called Hope, at Christmas) while
he
>is waiting to hear about "the job of a lifetime". I understand that
>Branagh did this movie while he was waiting to do HIS version of
"Hamlet".
>
>What I found most interesting was the "play within a play" aspect of
the
>movie, and that the characters of the movie are all actors in the play
>so they provide us with an examination of the PLAY's characters as
well
>as their own. It reminded me a little of the characters in
Pirandello's
>"Six Characters in Search of an Author".  I was wondering if you guys
know
>of any other movies/plays/etc. that do this sort of thing.
 
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