Apr 27
Hey Polonius how old is Hamlet? How old are YOU for that matter? How old is everyone?
The beauty of theatre is not knowing, is it not? Did you not find it jarring that Kent stated himself to be forty-eight in King Lear?
Nevertheless...if you are so curious, I could indulge you. On the day of my death in my particular iteration of Elsinore, perhaps, then:
-I was sixty-three.
-Hamlet was twenty-one. Ignore the Gravediggers.
-Ophelia was nineteen, Laertes was twenty-two, and Reynaldo was forty-nine.
-Claudius was fifty, Gertrude was fifty-eight, and Hamlet the First would have been fifty-four. His birthday passed between his death and mine.
-Rosencrantz was twenty-one, and Guildenstern was twenty.
