The Hamlet Project

The first mention of the title character of the play and he’s “young.”
Is he young in comparison to his old father with the same name?
Is this a distinguishing “young?”
If so – there are many other ways to distinguish these Hamlets.
We could tell the Living Hamlet this story
As opposed to the Dead one.
We would tell Prince Hamlet
Instead of King Hamlet.
Fleshy one instead of ghost one.
The one who will not fade when roosters crow
The daylight Hamlet, not the nocturnal,
The scholar Hamlet, not the martial
The son, not the father.
Hamlet is, after all, in his 30’s.
Horatio, his friend, is likely his contemporary.
It is curious, this “young”
But if we meet him this way,
Do we watch young Hamlet age
As the play grows older?
That mute spirit will speak to him and change everything.