The Hamlet Project

He doesn’t even get his own sentence by the time his royal uncle gets around to addressing him.
He’s been denied his position
Lost his father
(and his mother in her sudden remarriage)
He’s all at sea –
His uncle talks to almost everyone in the room but him
Before he finally faces him.
And he dares to call him “son”?
I still prickle when my stepmother
Calls me daughter and she married my father decades ago –
To risk that after a few days or weeks
Or whatever it is – no wonder Claudius gets interrupted.
If it were me, I’d be shouting,
“You are not my father!”
No matter how childish or out of propriety it might be.
My cousin and my son?!
Damn, Claudius, that was clumsy.