Appreciating Shakespeare
September 26th, 2004 by adamRecently, I found myself wondering why Hamlet had never gotten a proper treatment in Powerpoint. After another drink, I took it apon myself to remedy the situation.
Recently, I found myself wondering why Hamlet had never gotten a proper treatment in Powerpoint. After another drink, I took it apon myself to remedy the situation.
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There are many PowerPoint presentations of Hamlet. Probably the most famous is
http://bmillar1.users.btopenworld.com/hamletppt1.pps
This presentation is at least two years old:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=ac00ue%24e8e%241%40gw.liquidhome.com&output=gplain
Maybe you could ‘adapt’ a lesser-known play? :)
Sincerely,
Richard
Why didn’t you tell me that before? :)
(More seriously, I shared drafts with 20-odd folks, none of whom had seen that.)
adam, this needed to be done. thank you. for one thing you have exposed a critical flaw int he play: what this play is missing is a 3-5 year strategic vision! and where the hell is the org chart! madness!
My own biggest disapointment is that there’s a tie between slide-based thinking, and powerpoint in particular and a failure to make good decisions and act on them. (See Tufte’s work, for example.) I wanted to tie that to Hamlet’s inability to take action, but it just didn’t work right.