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Jeremy Funke: For my AP English midterm during my senior year of high school, I had to present an original artistic response, so I presented Hamlet from Hamlet??s point of view. I had three weeks to adapt, direct, produce and star in a two hour version of Hamlet. Then, last semester, my father mentioned this bizarre theory he had about Hamlet. His theory was that the lead player was hired by Horatio to play the role of Hamlet??s father’s ghost, under the assumption that Hamlet would hear the ghost, kill Claudius...
...clearly Shakespeare. But the lead player required a completely new character, because he has no real persona in the play. It sort of evolved from that point on. On the commuter train to Middleboro, I realized I could frame the whole story around the first person who historically recorded Hamlet??s story, a man by the name of Saxo the Grammarian. It was basically the same story, but with no depth, and the way the story ends is different. But Saxo’s story is remarkably the same in the way Horatio describes...
...title is a line from Hamlet, and it didn’t even occur to me how perfect it was until the new addition of Horatio as Hamlet??s half-brother. It is perfect because no one is telling the truth in the play, except Hamlet and Ophelia. Everyone is presenting a counterfeit to everyone else...
...member of the freshman class, Jeremy R. Funke ’03, has attempted and achieved just that. His new play, A Counterfeit Presentment, challenges the traditional interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, Hamlet. Funke’s play is a blend of Hamlet??s original text (as well as Othello and King Lear) and his own semi-Elizabethan prose. Although it would seem like a tall order to even attempt to change Shakespeare’s masterpiece, the mixture of the old material and Funke’s new lines works well...
...version of the tragedy is at first a bit confusing due to the plot’s completely different point of view. A Counterfeit Presentment is more the story of Horatio, one of Hamlet??s advisors, than anyone else. The play begins with Horatio wanting not only to tell Hamlet??s tale, but also to confess his own sins. It is here that Funke has incorporated a historical element in to the plot; Horatio tells his story to Saxo the Grammarian, the first writer to enter the real “Amleth” into...