S1 3: Schwumpf, There It Is
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.
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…
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?
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?
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:
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:
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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!
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
Samuel Beckett
Ingmar Bergman
Bertold Brecht
Dr. Jennifer Bugg Wright
Robert Burns
Susan Cain
G. K. Chesterton
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
The Complete Rhyming Dictionary
“Dolphin Mind”
The Good Place
Lauren Gunderson
Martin Heidegger
Henri, le Chat Noir
Edward Hirsch
Edmund Husserl
Eddie Izzard
Carl Jung
Daniel Kahneman
Immanuel Kant
Soren Kierkegaard
C. S. Lewis
Kristin Linklater
Esther Perel
Philosophy Tube
Laura Pittenger
Sir Terry Pratchett
The Princess Bride
Monty Python
Sarah Ruhl
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare & Company
Emily C. A. Snyder
Konstantin Stanislavski
Edith Stein
Deb Victoroff
Samuel Beckett
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
Dr. Jennifer Bugg Wright
Robert Burns
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
“Dolphin Mind”
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The Good Place
- The Good Place
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Lauren Gunderson
Martin Heidegger
- Martin Heidegger
- Dasein
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Henri, le Chat Noir
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Edward Hirsch
Edmund Husserl
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Eddie Izzard
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Carl Jung
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Daniel Kahneman
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Immanuel Kant
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Soren Kierkegaard
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C. S. Lewis
Kristin Linklater
- Kristin Linklater
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Esther Perel
- Esther Perel
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Philosophy Tube
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Laura Pittenger
- Laura Pittenger
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Sir Terry Pratchett
- Terry Pratchett
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The Princess Bride
- “Let me ‘splain” scene
Monty Python
Sarah Ruhl
William Shakespeare
- 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”
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- William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare & Company
- Shakespeare and Company
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Emily C. A. Snyder
- “Here,” a Dasein audio poem
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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
