His Hamlet would make the Bard himself applaud. What a great voice. I can just listen to him read the phone book. Another great actor with such a voice is James Mason.
Gielgud is the actor that most effectively emphasized the real, living dilemmas of a tormented feudal royal spirit. Hamlet was an unsuccessful renaissance prince filled with grief, royal pride, sense of regal power and deep mistrust of things around him. That is Hamlet's complex REALITY. Nothing else. Hamlet is not an upper class, erratic, modern posh boy suffering from depression due to the pressures of modern life. A 'modern reinterpretation' would reduce Hamlet, in the final analysis, to a rich, spoiled brat and noting much else. Hamlet's reality was the enormous, bewildering and sole crushing weight a feudal price would carry on his shoulders when he questions the very foundations of that feudal aristocratic system. That was the concrete social-political-psychological truth HE had to face. It might be acceptable to use modern cloths and props in a Shakespeare play. But don't misunderstand, even for a moment, that 'visual modernity' with the concrete, living reality brilliantly dissected in the play. We learn lessons for our time from that magnificent complexity and unrelenting liveliness with which Bard portrayed his time.
Wonderful wonderful Thank you. I adore Gielgud esp. his clarity of his hamlet - a great renaissaince prince!
His Hamlet would make the Bard himself applaud. What a great voice. I can just listen to him read the phone book. Another great actor with such a voice is James Mason.
James Mason is a fantastic actor.
See The Shooting Party, where they share scenes. (God, that's a tongue-twister!)
Excellent recitation. Thanks.
What a marvelous voice
The Greatest Hamlet.
Thank you very much😊
Gielgud is the actor that most effectively emphasized the real, living dilemmas of a tormented feudal royal spirit.
Hamlet was an unsuccessful renaissance prince filled with grief, royal pride, sense of regal power and deep mistrust of things around him. That is Hamlet's complex REALITY. Nothing else.
Hamlet is not an upper class, erratic, modern posh boy suffering from depression due to the pressures of modern life. A 'modern reinterpretation' would reduce Hamlet, in the final analysis, to a rich, spoiled brat and noting much else.
Hamlet's reality was the enormous, bewildering and sole crushing weight a feudal price would carry on his shoulders when he questions the very foundations of that feudal aristocratic system. That was the concrete social-political-psychological truth HE had to face.
It might be acceptable to use modern cloths and props in a Shakespeare play. But don't misunderstand, even for a moment, that 'visual modernity' with the concrete, living reality brilliantly dissected in the play. We learn lessons for our time from that magnificent complexity and unrelenting liveliness with which Bard portrayed his time.
Thanks. Its a shame his Hamlet was not filmed.
you can see a few seconds of it in the old ww2 documentary 'a diary for timothy'.
Jesus. So good.
they may not be good cooks, they sure are a helluva a thespian when it comes to the theatre.
A timeless actor and a classy gentleman who deserved greater acclaim.
Bravo.
Tutto recitato da un fascio di nervi umani tesi dentro lo spirito.Questo e ' il suo marchio di fabbrica ....Attore di razza.Eccelso.
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He reminds of Gilbert Gotfried
You remind of Carrot Top.
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