httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE9tNBWZ7Hw

The unlikely alignment of Shakespeare anniversaries this week — the first publication of the sonnets yesterday, the death of John Gielgud today, and the birth of Laurence Olivier tomorrow — deserves some sort of commemoration.  So how about the Reduced Shakespeare Company performing Hamlet in under 3 minutes?  And then, for good measure, performing it backwards.