Given---Iraq = Moby Dick--the white whale---the pain in Ahab's side. "HE HEAPS ME. HE TASKS ME."
Given---George Bush the First's inability to take out Iraq ten years ago is parallel to the tragic heights reached in Hamlet's procrastinations---especially in the light of recent events going down all around us and with us like the twin towers and/or the walls of Jerico.
Dubya's obsession with Iraq is easily traced back to his father's after-the-fact inability to act. He was, the fishermen all said, a "master baiter". When his harpoon was in his own hand, there was, seemingly, an inability to act. This was Hamlet's problem as well. The kid was a wimp. He needed Viagra bad and pretty much didn't believe in ghosts either.--- Here was a guy who was afraid / sure he was hearing voices and seeing stuff not really there who, in the end, took everyone off this mortal coil with him. Bush's cabinet are the off-the-mark voices he is hearing. Ahab's obsessive hunt for Moby Dick is, I think, young Bush going after the thing that ripped off his daddy's (middle) leg. That kind of thing ya just can't let pass--ala John Wayne Bobbit. Ya get it sewn back on the best way you can but it never gets to be what it was in the old days.
Polonious is played perfectly by Trent Lott Ophelia is played by the Attorney Gen. of Florida whatever her name was.(You know who I mean.) the king's brother is played by Jeb Bush. The GHOST of the king ia played by the gosts of all our anonymous GUESTs personified into one fell spirit---as is their wont . Laertes is played by EARL SCRUGGS (to bring music into this thread.)
We need more, folks. Try your hands at it. This is just a start.