Hamlet's To Be or Not to Be: a Close Reading
Reading and Writing - A podcast by Michael Lavers
In this mini podcast, I take apart the most famous passage in English literature. I examine the formal and linguistic patterns or structures that help make this soliloquy beautiful and incantatory. I also ask how its content can help explain the passage's enduring fame, and how both its content and form can give all aspiring writers something to strive for.
