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Rosenberg, in his preface, also goes into how “Hamlet” stands continual rereading, how you can keep getting more out of it. Of course, this is true for all great works of literature, and “Hamlet” is certainly one of those works that can live with you for all your life, one of those works that enable you to feel glad that you lived, letting even the most desolate loner to get a richer taste of life and its passions.
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Every reading of the lines then becomes a kind of full rehearsal - and hence an adventure in discovery. Many actors confirm what scholars have long since learned in their study: each such rehearsal opens new depths, plumbs covert subtexts of the felt life - what Nuttall calls “stripping away more coverings.” The buried notes begin to resonate. And inevitably as we actor-readers rehearse the passions of the characters, we further discover and exercise our own subtextual impulses. We plumb this mystery like those astronomers who search in the skies for the hidden “dark matter” which presumably influences the behavior of solar bodies: what “dark matter” explains the unpredictable behavior of these characters?
-- Marvin Rosenberg, “The Masks of Hamlet”
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Every reading of the lines then becomes a kind of full rehearsal - and hence an adventure in discovery. Many actors confirm what scholars have long since learned in their study: each such rehearsal opens new depths, plumbs covert subtexts of the felt life - what Nuttall calls “stripping away more coverings.” The buried notes begin to resonate. And inevitably as we actor-readers rehearse the passions of the characters, we further discover and exercise our own subtextual impulses. We plumb this mystery like those astronomers who search in the skies for the hidden “dark matter” which presumably influences the behavior of solar bodies: what “dark matter” explains the unpredictable behavior of these characters?
-- Marvin Rosenberg, “The Masks of Hamlet”
