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Romeo is a lover, but spends the first act being a drag, and in the later acts can't handle Tybalt. Hamlet is such a pest in the first act that, if you didn't know he was the hero, you'd be annoyed with him. Macbeth spoils a dinner party. And so on. SH seems to see that the very qualities that make his heros different from everyone else also make them clumsy at dealing on everyone else's level. (With Hal it may be something else: the whole Hal-iad is about his growing up, and it's a nice touch to see that, even though he's become a good leader, he's still shy around girls: look at how Branagh plays "Here comes your father," a bit he stole from a stage production he was directed by someone else in.Posted by Hamlet on March 28, 1997 at 11:27:01
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