httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8VOZLjQbvQ
With both John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier in mind, here is a selection of Hamlets. Above, David Tennant in the recent Royal Shakespeare Company production.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zEVZGuU3BU
Richard E. Grant in Withnail and I
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiRMGYQfXrs
“To be or not to be” soliloquy in Klingon
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiAs5gG1AA
Sarah Bernhardt
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa-cfEncd6Y
Hamlet in Camden, New Jersey
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTPXNpbm3v0
Grigory Kozintsev’s Гамлет
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGEYFE7e_R8
“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be”: Tom Stoppard’s Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Here is a link to an excerpt from the Burton “ranting” Hamlet (one of my favorites, perhaps for nostalgic reasons: I had a recording of it which I remember playing over and over again as teenager), with the great Hume Cronyn as Polonius:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l93LR6Sw75Q&feature=related