Two podcasts on Hamlet from Patrick Page of "Hadestown" and "All the Devils"

I am still on a bit of a break while researching for my next post in the Lazarus-in-Hamlet series. That next post will step back to examine other instances of "Lazarus," "lazar," "beg," and "beggar" in other works of Shakespeare besides Hamlet. (There are hundreds of instances of "beg," "beggar," "begging," "beggary.")

But meanwhile, my daughter is a huge fan of the musical, Hadestown (words and music by Anaïs Mitchell), in which Patrick Page has played the role of Hades. Page has a podcast in which he occasionally discusses Shakespeare and Hamlet.

[Image from Patrick Page Podcast. Fair use.]

He has played many roles in Shakespeare plays, and also has a new one-man show, All the Devils are Here, via the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington D.C., a show whose title is taken from a line spoken by Ariel in The Tempest. The show features many Shakespearean villains, and was written and performed by Page.

[Image from All the Devils are Here web page, Shakespeare Theater Company. Fair use.]

Patrick Page's excellent work in Hadestown was interrupted by the pandemic, but his one-man show in All the Devils are Here is available to view online at the link provided.

[Image from Hadestown.com. Fair use.]

 Page also has a podcast about acting, and there are two podcasts I'd like to highlight in particular, about Hamlet:

One of these is from April of 2020, called "Hamlet | Finding Your Purpose."

Another is from February 2021, a special episode called "Learning Hamlet." One of the many things Page mentions is a book by the American poet, Robert Bly (from my native Minnesota), a book called Iron John: A Book About Men.

[Image from Ebury-Penguin Random House. Fair use.]

Bly bases many of his reflections about masculinity on the title story from the Brothers Grimm, and Patrick Page claims in passing that Hamlet's journey is like that of the boy-prince in the Grimm brothers' tale. Page's recounting of the story during the podcast differs a bit from Bly's, and Page gets off on a bit of a tangent from his initial purpose of drawing the connection between Bly's Iron John and Hamlet, but it's a topic worth considering.

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