Summer Evening 2024#Event 3: 15 August 2024

Hamlet the Dane, Hamlet who else?

Speaker: Stephen Bagnold

We look at how Hamlet, the play’s leading character, seeks to reconcile the daggers of betrayal, revenge, corruption, madness, and ambition with nobility of mind and profound philosophical insights, framed in the most sublime language.

The aim is to be of interest to those both familiar and unfamiliar with the work.

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Stephen Bagnold joined the School in the early 70s. It is through philosophy that he came truly to love Shakespeare. He had a career in communications, his last corporate role being the Communications Director of the Trafalgar House Group, after which he started his own consultancy which ran successfully for more than 20 years. Now retired, he continues his philosophical studies while still enjoying Shakespeare, gardening when he can, and the laughter of friends always. He is married with three grown-up sons and two grandchildren.