Abstract:
THE SONG FROM HAMLET’S WOUND: a re-telling of the Hamlet tale re-set to the end of the Viking age. It is dramatized in the speech of the sagas: a strange fusion of formality, unsettling directness, ur-slang, and occasional Skaldic verse. GOD’S FOOL is a new look at Thomas More, The Man For All Seasons. ELIZABETH AND ALEXANDRA: to the familiar story of the last Tsar of Russia is added that of Tsarina Alexandra’s sister Elizabeth (both, granddaughters of Queen Victoria). When Elizabeth’s husband, the Governor General of Moscow, is assassinated she becomes a nun, pre-figuring Mother Theresa of Calcutta in caring for the orphans, the dying, the poor.