princesshamlet:princesshamlet:i don’t think we as an lgbt community talk about the first quarto’s de
princesshamlet:princesshamlet:i don’t think we as an lgbt community talk about the first quarto’s death scenes enoughlike hello? laertes with his final breath reaching up to hamlet and offering him his hand? the double-meaning, how he’s saying “take my hand, and withal, my love. i do forgive thee” but the audience will hear “take my hand, and with all my love i do forgive thee,” how laertes dies before he can hear that hamlet forgives him, how he dies not knowing hamlet forgives him, how hamlet reacts to horatio’s romeo-esque suicide attempt with “upon my love i charge thee let it go” i’m losing my mind here -- source link
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