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Hamlet by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #1 Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 08:17:10 AM EST

The problem with most productions of Hamlet (and Romeo and Juliet for that matter) is that by the time the actors are experienced enough to play the parts, they're too old to play the parts. Hamlet is about 18 or 19. Juliet is 11 or 12, and Romeo is maybe 14 or 15.

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: Romeo probably by R Mutt (2.00 / 0) #2 Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 08:31:15 AM EST

Though in Shakespeare's day he presumably had a big supply of teenage actors with just-broken voices.
With Hamlet though, we know that Yorick's skull has lain in the earth three and twenty years. If Hamlet remembers him, he can't be much under thirty.

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: Juliet by Scrymarch (4.00 / 1) #3 Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 11:58:55 PM EST

... is a teen, wiki says just short of 14.
The age thing has bothered me in the past, but I think in popular conception it's gone away a bit for Romeo and Juliet at least after the more recent movies.
Hamlet, I think TE is right, he's a moody twenty something trust fund kid who's just finished grad school and is skulking about wanting to do something Important.
Speaking of which I dunno that Claudius has to be a boozer, I think Hamlet complains about it but he's probably biased ... in fact the grog consumption for the duration of the play seems a bit low frequency by modern British standards ...
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