Hamlet: A Dangerous Books Lecture

Author Peter Dudink explains why no one should read or watch William Shakespeare's Hamlet, arguing that it functioned only to distract England's corrupt ruling class, just as it now distracts (from reality) millions of children in classrooms and fans in theaters around the world. This lecture will highlight how Hamlet was actually an exercise in British-Anglican snobbery and hypocrisy towards the Danish royal court. It also explains that Hamlet's mysterious behavior is a simple death wish. The pictures assembled for this lecture highlight the parallels between Hamlet's death wish and our collective death wish as well as the parallels between the insane royal court depicted in Hamlet and the insane American media circus and political theater.