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Faculty Editor of
Teaching "Hamlet" may con- TI
sume a great deal of a teacher's ,A
energies, but for Dr. Jack D. Ash- CI
ley of the Department of English, M
"the play's the thing." CI
Dr. Ashley is portraying Ham
let in the current production of of
Shakespeare's tragedy at Fort co
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"Hamlet in hard to play be- hil
cause of the range of his person- ev
ality, not to mention the vocal
challenge of the role," Dr. Ashley de
told The Gamecock. hij
In projecting the language of he
Shakespeare, Ashley said, "I want to
to retain the poetry in which
'Hamlet' was written and at the .
same time create emotional depth r
and range. Sometimes I find my
self stretching the iambic pentam- Ve
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Dr. Ashley has appeared as
tomas A Becket in T. S. Eliot's
lurder in the Cathedral" and as
,eon in "Antigone." Another
,Ijor part was the title role in
iekov's "Uncle Vanya."
"I am reluctant to may anything
Hamlet's true nature," Ashley
mmented. "He 'eats of the
ameleon's dish.' I conceive of
lm as an ironist who ironizes
eryone in the play. I mean his
:king at Rosencrantz and Guil
nstern, his brutal treatment of
i mother, the savage behavior
puts on with Ophelia, and so
rth.
"The only person he- doesn't
nize is Horatio. He even iron
!s himself in his soliloquies."
Ashley said the role was not
ry demanding physically, in
ite of the fact that he sprained
i ankle while trying to "get into
ape" for the play.
rhe most difficult sections of
a play, Ashley said, are Ham
's jocular moments and his ex
anges with other characters.
L's hardest to maintain the
aracter in these moments. The
liloquies are the easiest to bring
Dr. Ashley said he didn't think
imlet was as demanding a role
King Lear or Othello might
" S o m e of Shakespeare's
eeches make you think he hated
actors for whom he wrote," he
ded wryly.
'Hamlet" is playing through
nday, with 8 p.m. performances
tight and Saturday and 2 p.m.
itinees Saturday and Sunday.
ank Cal'abiano is director. The
ky is being produced by the
C. Theatre Co.
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The scene is the Russell House, fac
second floor; the time is Tuesday .
afternoon. In the lobby, students ers
both long and short-haired, wan
der back and forth. They talk, ab<
smoke, laugh. No doubt many of '
them complain about their teach
ers, courses, the system in gen- cor
eral.
Down the hall in Room 208 is for
another group of students, both har
long and short-haired. They talk,
smoke, laugh and also complain in
about teachers, courses and the dir
system in general. Only here it's sta
different. This is student-faculty pe,:
drop-in, and there are real live
teachers listening to the com- fre
plaints. an(
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Why don't professors attend
ulty meetings ?"
We should have better sjeak
on campus."
Can't teachers get concerned
out parking?"
he teachers also complain:
Most students I've had can't
imunicate."
I give out evaluation sheets
n.y course and only get a
idful back."
kver. attendance at the drop- OM
varies, Kiki Stillwell, assistant
ector of the Student Union,
ted, adding that attendance up
irs to he increasing gradually.
)ne professor noted, "There's
e iced tea, coffee and cookies'
I still students don't come.
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In instructing individuals Miss
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Likewise, she hopes Carolina
itadents can learn to make up for
he crowding-in of ideas and
wvents which has characterized the
iputnik generation. "You have to
)nd a way to sit down and do
iothing, to meditate on things un
.elated to what has assailed you
ill day. You also have to pause
ind assimilate what you have
>een exposed to intellectually and
motionally.
"Today's students are overre
icting to the things with which
they are confronted. Ten years
igo Carolina students brought
their books to class, listened to the
esson, and took their books back
to the dorm to study. They were
iathetic!"
She c o n t i n u e d , "Attitudes
should even out and produce in
terested students. However, if the
youth involvement is suppressed
before it runs its course, I don't
know what will be the outcome."
Concerniing AWARE Miss Ott
1omm11ented, "It's time all types
11f extremists had a voice, an out
let on campus. College students
may learn to disagree without be
ing disagreeable.
"Of course." she added, "there
is a certain lunatic fringe seeking
4olutions to personal problems
who are attracted to the organiza
lion. The group should be very
wary of those who take over and
misuse it.
Although she has taught Latin,
G;reek and occasionally% French
:mnd Spanish for nearly three dec
aIde-, liss Ott has commented, "I
n% ,uld do away with foreign lan
guage' requirements here. Lan
L uages should be elected by those
who feel they will use them later."
Teaching Greek and Latin have
given her, she feels, a homey
outlook. "There is a sense of
timelessness in knowing that peo
le in other times thought and felt
the same things we do. It
makes my world seem more stable
and not so big."
She concluded, "I try to give
each topic relevance without mak
ing the effort contrived. It's pos
sible to live in a classical period
through study without escaping
to it."
Relevance seems to be the key
word to .liss Ott's communica
tion.
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