Another Point Of View - Hamlet Revisited

You've often heard that old saying, things are not always what they seem. Well let us be brutally frank with you tonight and say that it is our happy duty to demolish completely that ridiculous little phrase with this objective reappraisal.

Things are always and only what they seem. It depends entirely on the point of view. It is upon this premise then that tonight we would like you to take a closer look at Hamlet. Prince of Denmark.

From Hollywood, CBS Radio presents the CBS Radio Workshop, dedicated to man's imagination, the theatre of the mine. Tonight, transcribed for your amusement or fury, according to your temperament or philosophy, another point of view or hamlet revisited, being an analytical misrepresentation of Shakespeare's greatest hero figure, compiled especially for the workshop by Ben Wright and William Conrad.

And now once again here is Mr. Conrad. Now with regard to Hamlet, it seems a little more than strange to us and historical debate gives us grounds that if Hamlet were such a hero and Denmark he would automatically have been elected king upon the death of his father, and yet he was not.

We wonder why. Again, it seems highly probable that Claudius did not kill Hamlet's father purely from jealousy or desire to usurp the throne, but simply because he was a patriot, with the highest moral motives who realized that the danger to Denmark made the removal of a useless king—a national necessity.

And again, historical debate gives us most valid grounds for this supposition. And finally it occurs to us that there was really nothing rotten in the state of Denmark, Hamlet made it so. You will, of course, demand proof and proof you shall have. Firstly, however, we must confess that though we use only the words of the Bada Viva and our drama, we've