Stoppard did it. Updike did it. Renaissance Faires do it every summer. Filmmakers galore have done it in some way or another...It? Hamlet, in their own distinctive style. Contestants, you have until the end of July to reconceive a scene of Hamlet in your own inimitable approach.

Since there are three of you, you can each email the judges at their home address, who will post your entries as stand alone posts on successive days in the beginning of August, where readers of the blog will be encouraged to submit comments (as if anyone ever comments here!)

So whether you hope to duplicate the Oedipal struggle of Hamlet and his mother, the performed madness of Hamlet, or the "truer" madness of Ophelia, the Ghost scene, or the final bloody slice-and-dice, make it yours and make it good. You have two weeks (and a bit). Good luck!