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Alex Lawther, below, as an especially vulnerable Hamlet with Jennifer Ehle as Queen Gertrude in Robert Icke’s production of “Hamlet” at the Park Avenue Armory.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

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First of all, dismiss ideas, and social background, and train the freshman to shiver, to get drunk on the poetry of Hamlet or Lear, to read with his spine and not with his skull.

Vladimir Nabokov on how to discover Shakespeare.