Hampton Hamlet

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    A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
    —Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)

    They know that Hamlet and Lear are gay;
    Gaiety transfiguring all that dread.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)