Hamlet, Christmas, and the Liturgical Year
Cassidy Cash has an episode, " Is Hamlet a Christmas Play? " This older podcast/episode from 2019 is still available on YouTube: In it, she discusses Steve Roth's essay, " Hamlet as The Christmas Prince: Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, Revels, and Misrule. " It's an interesting topic and podcast episode. Roth's essay appeared in Early Modern Literary Studies 7.3 (January, 2002): 5.1-89 Roth is also the author of the book, Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country . In it, he argues that Hamlet is about 16 years old. See also Rhodri Lewis, Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness , and his article in Shakespeare Magazine UK from August of 2018, issue 14: "How old is Hamlet?" ). One need not agree with them on this point, especially if one is Ian McKellen.... While the play may have been written for, opened, and played during Advent and the 12 Days of Christmas, the play contains references to scripture readings that wer...