HAMLET TO HAMILTON
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        • S1 E1: Defining Verse Drama
        • S1 E2: Content Dictates Form
        • S1 E3: Schwumpf, There It Is
        • S1 E4: Heresy!
        • S1 E5: So You Think You Know Scansion?
        • S1 E6: Whose Line (Ending) Is It Anyway?
        • S1 E7: What's My Line (Ending)?
        • S1 E8: First Folio and Emotive Formatting
        • S1 E9: The Rules of Emotive Formatting
        • S1 E10: Silences, Spacing, Stage Directions & Shared Lines
      • Season Two >
        • S2 E1: The Earliest Arthur: Thomas Hughes
        • S2 E2: Verse Drama Meets Opera: John Dryden
        • S2 E3: Burlesque and Verse Drama: Henry Fielding's "Tom Thumb"
        • S2 E4: Defenestrating Lancelot!
        • S2 E5: Empowering Guinevere
        • S2 E6: More Hovey, More Honey
        • S2 E7: Melodrama!
        • S2 E8: Gilbert and Sullivan Do King Arthur...Kinda
        • S2 E9: King Arthur and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Play
        • S2 E10: New Arthur, New Millennia
        • S2 E11: A Philosophical "King Arthur" by Lucy Nordberg
        • S2 E12: The First Folio in the 21st Century: Daniel James Roth's "The Tragedy of King Arthur"
        • S2 E13: Stage Violence and Verse: "The Table Round" & "The Siege Perilous" by Emily C. A. Snyder (2019)
      • Season Three >
        • S3 E1: So You Think You Know Soliloquies?
        • S3 E2: Redefining Verse Drama, Pt. 1 - Four Types of Verse
        • S3 E3: Deep Dive: Exploring Hamlet's Seven Soliloquies
        • S3 E4: Deep Dive: Exploring Macbeth's Soliloquies
        • S3 E5: The Villain Soliloquies: Richard III, Iago, Edmund Don John...and Petruchio?
        • S3 E6: "Madness" in Soliloquy:- Re-examining King Lear, Lady Macbeth and Ophelia
        • S3 15: Discovering Character Through Line Breaks - Part 3
    • Bonus Episodes >
      • Interviews >
        • Interview: Tim Carroll
        • Interview: Peter Oswald
        • Interview: Glyn Maxwell
        • Interview: Kasia Lech
        • Interview: Caeden Musser
        • Interview: Deb Victoroff
      • Round Tables >
        • Round Table of the Round Table: Lucy Nordberg, Daniel James Roth, Emily C. A. Snyder
        • Round Table: Daniel James Roth, Grace Bardsley, Benedetto Robinson
      • BAR(D) TALKS
      • Unhinged Rants
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    • Types of Verse >
      • What is Verse?
      • Prose vs. Poetry
    • Meter and Scansion >
      • What is Meter?
      • Rhythm and Prosody
      • Stressed and Unstressed Syllables
      • Prosody (Wikipedia)
    • Contemporary Verse Dramatists >
      • 18th Century
      • 19th Century
      • 20th Century
      • 21st Century
    • Timeline of Arthurian Verse Drama
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S1 3: Schwumpf, There It Is

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Verse: "A Red, Red Rose," Robert Burns

O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.

Verse: Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Act III, Scene 1) 

HAMLET.                   
To be, or not to be, that is the question,
 Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
 Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more…

Prose: The Tragedy of the Election of the Citrus King by Deb Victoroff

TRUMPIST.           
Stay, sir.  If you brother be, stay your vocal ‘plaint.  You say, “I know,” yet know not, else, why say this result was an error of judgment or bad luck, and not the choice of a free people who spoke and loudly, against oppressions of their own?

Verse: The Tragedy of the Election of the Citrus King by Deb Victoroff

TRUMPIST.           
Stay, sir.  If you brother be,
Stay your vocal ‘plaint. 
You say, “I know,” yet know not,
Else, why say this result was an error
Of judgment or bad luck,
And not the choice of a free people who spoke
And loudly,
Against oppressions of their own?

BONUS EPISODE: Interview with Deb Victoroff

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Homework

1. Spend time with your thoughts: pull them apart to their component stars.  What are some things you’ve schwumpfed together, and do they belong together?
 
2. Look at verse (your own or someone else’s), and look at where the schwumpfs are: what thoughts are schwumpfed together?  Put || between schwumpfs as you see them, such as:
To be || or not to be || that is the question
 
Or:
 
To be or not to be || that is the question
3. Try writing your own verse, and putting line breaks wherever there’s a major change in schwumpf (whatever that means to you)
 
4. If you want to share your findings, either tag us at #hamlettohamilton #h2h or @hamlettohamilton…or join our super-secret Facebook group by joining our Patreon!

Resources

Aristotle

  • Aristotle
  • Poetics – Book | Gutenberg
 
Samuel Beckett

  • Samuel Beckett
  • Endgame
 
Ingmar Bergman

  • “The Knight Meets Death” from The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman
  • “Coffin Scene” from Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman
  • “Silent Strawberries” from The Muppets Go to the Movies
 
Bertold Brecht

  • Bertold Brecht
  • “Alienation Effect”
 
Dr. Jennifer Bugg Wright

  • Dr. Jennifer Bugg Wright, Psy.D.
 
Robert Burns

  • Robert Burns
  • “A Red, Red Rose”
 
Susan Cain

  • “The Power of Introverts,” TED 2012 Talk
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
 
G. K. Chesterton

  • G. K. Chesterton
  • “Heart in the right place” parable in “The Paradoxes of Christianity,” from Orthodoxy (Project Gutenberg)
 
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

  • “Sexy French Depression” by Rachel Bloom and Adam Schlesinger
 
 The Complete Rhyming Dictionary

  • Book
 
“Dolphin Mind”

  • Explaining “Dolphin Mind” Twitter thread from @3TrackMind79
 
The Good Place

  • The Good Place
  • “How The Good Place taught moral philosophy to its characters – and its creators” by Dylan Matthews, Vox.com
  • “Chidi’s Kierkegaard Rap” performed by William Jackson Harper, from The Good Place
 
Lauren Gunderson

  • Lauren Gunderson
 
Martin Heidegger

  • Martin Heidegger
  • Dasein
  • “Heiddegger” (Introductory Video) from The School of Life
  • “Phenomenology and Dasein,” Heidegger Pt. 1 from Philosophize This!
  • “Heidegger’s Being and Time” from Philosophy Overdose
 
  • John Mulaney on “New Nazis” from Kid Gorgeous
 
Henri, le Chat Noir

  • « Henri 2, Paw de Deux » by Will Braden
 
Edward Hirsch

  • A Poet’s Glossary
 
Edmund Husserl

  • Edmund Husserl
  • Phenomenology
  • “Phenomenology” from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • “Mna Mna” song from The Muppets
 
Eddie Izzard

  • “Eins, zwei, build an empire,” Dress to Kill
 
Carl Jung

  • Carl Jung
  • “On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry” by C. G. Jung from StudioCleo.com
  • Dramatic Theory and Criticism: Greeks to Growtowski by Bernard F. Dukore
 
Daniel Kahneman

  • Daniel Kahneman
  • Thinking Fast and Slow
  • “Thinking Fast and Slow” Kahneman lecture at Long Now: Seminars About Long-Term Thinking
  • “What Happens in a Philosopher’s Brain?” from Philosophy Tube
 
Immanuel Kant

  • “Immanuel Kant” (Introductory Video) from The School of Life
  • “Beginner’s Guide to Kant’s Moral Philosophy” from Philosophy Tube
  • “Is Philosophy Just White Guys J3rk!ngOff?” from Philosophy Tube
 
Soren Kierkegaard

  • “Soren Kierkegaard” (Introductory Video) from The School of Life
 
C. S. Lewis

  • C. S. Lewis
 
Kristin Linklater

  • Kristin Linklater
  • Freeing Shakespeare’s Voice  (See “Shakespeare & Co.”)
 
Esther Perel

  • Esther Perel
  • “Where Should We Begin” couples therapy podcast
 
Philosophy Tube

  • Philosophy Tube
  • “What Happens in a Philosopher’s Brain?” from Philosophy Tube
  • “Beginner’s Guide to Kant’s Moral Philosophy” from Philosophy Tube
  • “Is Philosophy Just White Guys J3rk!ng Off?” from Philosophy Tube
 
 Laura Pittenger

  • Laura Pittenger
  • The HVAC Plays (Or, Adventures in Living Without Basic Necessities, Like Heat and Air Conditioning) by Laura Pittenger
 
Sir Terry Pratchett

  • Terry Pratchett
  • “Inspiration” quote, from Sourcery
  • “First, second and third thoughts” quote from A Hat Full of Sky
 
The Princess Bride

  • “Let me ‘splain” scene
 
Monty Python

  • The Philosopher’s Drinking Song
 
Sarah Ruhl

  • Sarah Ruhl
 
William Shakespeare

  • Folger: Shakespeare Texts Online
  • MIT: Shakespeare Texts Online
 
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    • Kenneth Branaugh “To be or not to be”
    • Richard Burton “To be or not to be”
    • Paapa Essiedu “To be or not to be”
    • Mel Gibson “To be or not to be”
    • Ethan Hawke “To be or not to be”
    • Laurence Olivier “To be or not to be”
    • Andrew Scott “To be or not to be”
    • David Tennant “To be or not to be”
 
  • Some silliness with “To be”
    • Shakespeare Live! With a ton of British actors and Prince Charles
    • “A Small Rewrite” with Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie
    • Reduced Shakespeare Company, “To be or not to be”
 
  • William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
 
Shakespeare & Company

  • Shakespeare and Company
  • “Dropping in” (Page 23) from “The Pedagogy of Shakespeare & Company” by Catherine Bryne, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • “Dropping In: An Actor’s Truth as Poetry” from IHeartIngrid Blog
 
Emily C. A. Snyder

  • “Here,” a Dasein audio poem
  • “Still Smarting: Women, Shakespeare, and Processing Emotion” from HowlRound
  • “The Modern Melancholy Danes: A Comparison of Kierkegaard and Hamlet” on an absurdly old website from Y2K
 
Konstantin Stanislavski

  • Konstantin Stanislavski
  • Table Work, Stanislavski System
 
Edith Stein

  • Edith Stein
  • “Empathy and the Constitution of the Self in the Philosophy of Edith Stein" by Nikolas Prasses from DLC Oxford
  • “Edith Stein” from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Narcissim and Empathy by Dr. Ramani
 
Deb Victoroff

  • Deb Victoroff on New Play Exchange
  • Tragedy in monologue form at Dixon Place, NYC
  • Tragedy as a drama at the New York Theatre Festival
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  • Home
    • Team
    • Turn to Flesh Productions
    • DM Me Podcast
  • Episode Guide
    • Seasons >
      • Season One >
        • S1 E1: Defining Verse Drama
        • S1 E2: Content Dictates Form
        • S1 E3: Schwumpf, There It Is
        • S1 E4: Heresy!
        • S1 E5: So You Think You Know Scansion?
        • S1 E6: Whose Line (Ending) Is It Anyway?
        • S1 E7: What's My Line (Ending)?
        • S1 E8: First Folio and Emotive Formatting
        • S1 E9: The Rules of Emotive Formatting
        • S1 E10: Silences, Spacing, Stage Directions & Shared Lines
      • Season Two >
        • S2 E1: The Earliest Arthur: Thomas Hughes
        • S2 E2: Verse Drama Meets Opera: John Dryden
        • S2 E3: Burlesque and Verse Drama: Henry Fielding's "Tom Thumb"
        • S2 E4: Defenestrating Lancelot!
        • S2 E5: Empowering Guinevere
        • S2 E6: More Hovey, More Honey
        • S2 E7: Melodrama!
        • S2 E8: Gilbert and Sullivan Do King Arthur...Kinda
        • S2 E9: King Arthur and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Play
        • S2 E10: New Arthur, New Millennia
        • S2 E11: A Philosophical "King Arthur" by Lucy Nordberg
        • S2 E12: The First Folio in the 21st Century: Daniel James Roth's "The Tragedy of King Arthur"
        • S2 E13: Stage Violence and Verse: "The Table Round" & "The Siege Perilous" by Emily C. A. Snyder (2019)
      • Season Three >
        • S3 E1: So You Think You Know Soliloquies?
        • S3 E2: Redefining Verse Drama, Pt. 1 - Four Types of Verse
        • S3 E3: Deep Dive: Exploring Hamlet's Seven Soliloquies
        • S3 E4: Deep Dive: Exploring Macbeth's Soliloquies
        • S3 E5: The Villain Soliloquies: Richard III, Iago, Edmund Don John...and Petruchio?
        • S3 E6: "Madness" in Soliloquy:- Re-examining King Lear, Lady Macbeth and Ophelia
        • S3 15: Discovering Character Through Line Breaks - Part 3
    • Bonus Episodes >
      • Interviews >
        • Interview: Tim Carroll
        • Interview: Peter Oswald
        • Interview: Glyn Maxwell
        • Interview: Kasia Lech
        • Interview: Caeden Musser
        • Interview: Deb Victoroff
      • Round Tables >
        • Round Table of the Round Table: Lucy Nordberg, Daniel James Roth, Emily C. A. Snyder
        • Round Table: Daniel James Roth, Grace Bardsley, Benedetto Robinson
      • BAR(D) TALKS
      • Unhinged Rants
  • Additional Resources
    • Types of Verse >
      • What is Verse?
      • Prose vs. Poetry
    • Meter and Scansion >
      • What is Meter?
      • Rhythm and Prosody
      • Stressed and Unstressed Syllables
      • Prosody (Wikipedia)
    • Contemporary Verse Dramatists >
      • 18th Century
      • 19th Century
      • 20th Century
      • 21st Century
    • Timeline of Arthurian Verse Drama
  • Patreon
    • Fractured Atlas