Poem: ‘Poland, the Philosopher and the Players’
James Malpas, 17 December 1981
Was Hamlet present at Bruno’s lectures before giving up University as a job-lot of scoundrels and charlatans, leaving Wittenberg for a court grown purulent? He found himself unemployed, at best the self-appointed professional mourner. Offstage, Poland is racked with unrest. Four centuries later, Andrzej Wajda films Hamlet in gabled Cracow, where Faust (real and imagined) plied his...
