Our Poetry Aloud this week is one of Hamlet’s famous speeches — the one after he’s just sent the traveling actors to get ready to put on a play before the court, with an addition or two of his own. The power of art is on full display here. What is it about the acting of a scene that can stir us to the depths of our souls, when if we merely hear about …
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