Poetry: Hamlet by William Shakespeare Act 3 Scene 1 ‖ Tom Hiddleston ‖ The Dragon Book of Verse

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  • Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
  • In 2017, Tom contributed to the "Dragon School Book of Verse" audio CD with two Shakespeare readings: Prospero's Farewell to his Magic (The Tempest) and Hamlet's Soliloquy (Hamlet).
    (Note: the cover picture is a promotional photo from the play by Johan Persson)
    Hamlet by William Shakespeare Act 3 Scene 1
    "To be, or not to be, that is the question:
    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
    Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
    And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
    No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
    The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
    That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
    Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,
    To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub,
    For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
    When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
    Must give us pause. There's the respect
    That makes Calamity of so long life:
    For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time,
    The Oppressor's wrong, the proud man's Contumely,
    The pangs of disprized Love, the Law’s delay,
    The insolence of Office, and the spurns
    That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
    When he himself might his Quietus make
    With a bare Bodkin? Who would Fardels bear,
    To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
    But that the dread of something after death,
    The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
    No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
    And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
    Than fly to others that we know not of.
    Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
    And thus the native hue of Resolution
    Is sicklied o'er, with the pale cast of Thought,
    And enterprises of great pitch and moment,
    With this regard their Currents turn awry,
    And lose the name of Action."
    • ────────────────────────────────── •
    Hamlet monológja (fordította Arany János)
    Lenni vagy nem lenni: az itt a kérdés.
    Akkor nemesb-e a lélek, ha tűri
    Balsorsa minden nyűgét s nyilait;
    Vagy ha kiszáll tenger fájdalma ellen,
    S fegyvert ragadva véget vet neki?
    Meghalni - elszunnyadni - semmi több;
    S egy álom által elvégezni mind
    A szív keservét, a test eredendő,
    Természetes rázkódtatásait
    Oly cél, minőt óhajthat a kegyes.
    Meghalni - elszunnyadni - és alunni!
    Talán álmodni: ez a bökkenő;
    Mert hogy mi álmok jőnek a halálban,
    Ha majd leráztuk mind e földi bajt,
    Ez visszadöbbent. E meggondolás az,
    Mi a nyomort oly hosszan élteti
    Mert ki viselné a kor gúny-csapásit,
    Zsarnok bosszúját, gőgös ember dölyfét,
    Útált szerelme kínját, pör-halasztást,
    A hivatalnak packázásait,
    S mind a rugást, mellyel méltatlanok
    Bántalmazzák a tűrő érdemet
    Ha nyúgalomba küldhetné magát
    Egy puszta tőrrel? - Ki hordaná e terheket,
    Izzadva, nyögve élte fáradalmin,
    Ha rettegésünk egy halál utáni
    Valamitől - a nem ismert tartomány,
    Melyből nem tér meg utazó - le nem
    Lohasztja kedvünk, inkább tűrni a
    Jelen gonoszt, mint ismeretlenek
    Felé sietni? - Ekképp az öntudat
    Belőlünk mind gyávát csinál,
    S az elszántság természetes szinét
    A gondolat halványra betegíti;
    Ily kétkedés által sok nagyszerű,
    Fontos merény kifordul medriből
    S elveszti »tett« nevét.
    • ────────────────────────────────── •
    Audio/credit: From the celebratory Audio CD recorded exclusively for the 2017 Dragon Sale to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the publication of The Dragon Book of Verse.
    • ────────────────────────────────── •
    Tom reads more poems in the Love Book App which you can buy here: apps.apple.com...
    (Note: unfortunately it is not available on Android, only iOS)
    • ────────────────────────────────── •
    DISCLAIMER: This is a non-monetized channel. No copyright infringement intended. I created/edited this video for entertainment and educational purpose only. I do not own nor claim to own anything in this video. The videos/audios/photos are property of their rightful owners. All credit goes to the owners of all the materials used in this video. #poetry #poem #actorsreadingpoetry

Комментарии • 120

  • @marie-louisepennings2672
    @marie-louisepennings2672 5 лет назад +657

    Tom Hiddleston was born to speak Shakespeare’s words. Just a magic combination.

    • @FreakCanal
      @FreakCanal 3 года назад +2

      @@Ben-pd2bx Shakespeare's english sounded completely different.

    • @dianagr4992
      @dianagr4992 3 года назад +6

      Or, was Shakespeare born to write words for Tom???

    • @damarh
      @damarh 2 года назад +1

      Tom is one out of a thousand Shakespeare students who managed to become popular against all odds.

    • @katherinetorres8110
      @katherinetorres8110 Год назад

      No cuz that's my dream too 😂

  • @positivelypetpartners
    @positivelypetpartners 5 лет назад +37

    Only Shakespeare can make poetry of a man deciding whether or not to commit suicide and only Tom can execute it so beautifully. #tomhiddleston

  • @ChriSSS-99
    @ChriSSS-99 2 года назад +14

    I will not be surprised if someday we discover that Shakespeare has reborn as Tom Hiddleston.
    Tom's voice is angelic.

  • @habebagamal4553
    @habebagamal4553 4 года назад +36

    His voice is weirdly magical and comfortable😇

  • @sydneyshermanna
    @sydneyshermanna 5 лет назад +44

    You had me at "to be or not to be"

  • @dianagr4992
    @dianagr4992 3 года назад +43

    He could make a mash potato recipe sound fascinating

  • @mariangelafasciani7082
    @mariangelafasciani7082 3 года назад +40

    this man is capable of making even shakespeare sound hot.

  • @ayaglas
    @ayaglas 3 года назад +33

    His voice is heaven

  • @sandie321
    @sandie321 3 года назад +32

    Never too late to appreciate Shakespeare once again. Thanks Tom.

  • @britischenadligen3760
    @britischenadligen3760 4 года назад +34

    One of my dearest British actors reciting my favorite Shakespearean play? This might just be the peak of my anglophilic existence ❤🇬🇧

  • @rlvarady
    @rlvarady 4 года назад +156

    would it be creepy if I say, "I just want to listen to him read Shakespeare as I comb my fingers through his hair?"

    • @alisonhalerich
      @alisonhalerich 4 года назад +11

      Not At All!! Very understandable.

    • @faithblack7921
      @faithblack7921 4 года назад +12

      Nope, totally get that. Or lie my head in his lap as he ran his fingers through my hair

    • @PriyaCreationsFun
      @PriyaCreationsFun 4 года назад

      @@faithblack7921 whose fingers ?

    • @karrylady
      @karrylady 3 года назад +5

      Absolutely feel you. I would literally give my first born to do just that😆

    • @ainaubedaharo3313
      @ainaubedaharo3313 3 года назад +2

      I want that too

  • @mckenzierunsick3080
    @mckenzierunsick3080 5 лет назад +25

    He had me when he just started talking.

  • @sanatabassum6814
    @sanatabassum6814 4 года назад +18

    Shakespeare & Tom are synonyms of each other.....his voice beyond words....the magic it creates....omggggggg

    • @m0her_2
      @m0her_2 3 года назад +1

      Take a look at Only Lovers Left Alive, by J. Jarmush... It's an other masterpiece that may interest you as well ! ;)

  • @gilangsetyawibawa185
    @gilangsetyawibawa185 9 месяцев назад +10

    What If Season 2's Loki Variant brought me here!

  • @michelleregis6181
    @michelleregis6181 2 года назад +12

    Tom hae a lovely voice for reading poetry, soft yet dramatic ive always admired his diction and pacing 👏👏👏

  • @mckenzierunsick3080
    @mckenzierunsick3080 5 лет назад +25

    The man could be teaching me math! And I would love it!!

    • @p-isforpoetry
      @p-isforpoetry  5 лет назад +3

      You're welcome 😊
      ruclips.net/video/EdDqhn43ZYQ/видео.html
      💚

    • @PriyaCreationsFun
      @PriyaCreationsFun 4 года назад +1

      But he himself said that he is bad at maths.

  • @ame8710
    @ame8710 5 лет назад +29

    I read Shakespeare during my teenage years. I didn't really understand much but I enjoyed reading them so much. Now, in my thirties, watching your video while looking at the lines you had posted along with it, I understand. And, they are beautiful. Thank you.

    • @okaminess
      @okaminess 3 года назад +1

      Same. I majored in English but didn’t necessarily love Shakespeare. I’m coming around to it...

  • @jeanhill5406
    @jeanhill5406 2 года назад +8

    What a glorious voice!! I can imagine Shakespeare himself requesting his works be read only by Tom Hiddleston...

    • @ChriSSS-99
      @ChriSSS-99 2 года назад +1

      Absolutely 👍

    • @patstocker3658
      @patstocker3658 Год назад

      After Laurence Olivier of course? Nobody does it better than his lordship. Beautiful both in voice and diction

  • @LeuchtendeMotte
    @LeuchtendeMotte 4 года назад +26

    I don't understand anything (bc native language isn't English) but his voice makes it magical and that's all I need! ♡

    • @sbnwnc
      @sbnwnc 4 года назад +1

      Just read it and listen to it at the same time.
      To be, or not to be, that is the question:
      Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
      The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
      Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
      And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep;
      No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
      The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
      That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
      Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,
      To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub,
      For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
      When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
      Must give us pause. There's the respect
      That makes Calamity of so long life:
      For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time,
      The Oppressor's wrong, the proud man's Contumely,
      The pangs of dispised Love, the Law’s delay,
      The insolence of Office, and the spurns
      That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
      When he himself might his Quietus make
      With a bare Bodkin? Who would Fardels bear, [F: these Fardels]
      To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
      But that the dread of something after death,
      The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
      No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
      And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
      Than fly to others that we know not of.
      Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
      And thus the native hue of Resolution
      Is sicklied o'er, with the pale cast of Thought,
      And enterprises of great pitch and moment, [F: pith]
      With this regard their Currents turn awry, [F: away]
      And lose the name of Action.

    • @marvineo.c.1591
      @marvineo.c.1591 4 года назад +1

      @@sbnwnc I love you

  • @Ketoko77
    @Ketoko77 5 лет назад +16

    So calming. My troubled soul has been healed

  • @judybc46
    @judybc46 5 лет назад +31

    My favourite Shakespeare soliloquy recited by one of my favourite actors? I'll take 10 please.

  • @poemsbystephanie1
    @poemsbystephanie1 Год назад +9

    I could listen to him for hours on end and still it wouldn’t be enough ❤❤❤

  • @okaminess
    @okaminess 3 года назад +21

    It sounds good, but it’s lovely to be able to see it too.

  • @Jen999
    @Jen999 Год назад +8

    Beautifully done .. the ethereal voice of Tom Hiddleston is what dreams are made of .. his beautiful voice transports you there .. where he is .. listening in awe ..
    Tom is eloquent and emotional as he speaks .. and hearing him ., you wish only that you could listen forever ..
    And this man is way beyond beautiful ❣
    Jen999💙

  • @Buffpork
    @Buffpork 9 месяцев назад +7

    AAAAA HE READ THIS SOLILOQUY IN WHAT IF S2

  • @julian3620
    @julian3620 5 лет назад +20

    I used this video and others for sleeping.
    Thanks Tom, you helped me :D

  • @wildelove13
    @wildelove13 4 года назад +16

    The way your voice executed this was beautiful🖤

  • @adihaim1083
    @adihaim1083 2 года назад +5

    Perfection. This question is soo valuable to me.. and the way he reads it helps me connect even deeper to the text

  • @bikassanyal6971
    @bikassanyal6971 Год назад +3

    Such a beautiful voice.

  • @clancycreations
    @clancycreations Год назад +1

    Thank you as I remember one of the most beautiful teachers I had in hs decades ago. He never saw me but many or all of us saw him. Thank you, Mr. Culver, for all that you offered Puyallup 💜

  • @ainaubedaharo3313
    @ainaubedaharo3313 3 года назад +42

    Can he just make an audiobook of Hamlet and all shekspeare pls

  • @manuelzarzar2257
    @manuelzarzar2257 3 года назад +11

    The best, I ever heard.

  • @walternyc
    @walternyc 2 года назад +12

    I like the pause and "... end them" clearly enunciated. The Sir Laurence Olivier way and undoubtedly the way that William intended

    • @patstocker3658
      @patstocker3658 Год назад

      Absolutely. Perfection. His interpretation is soo insightful and poignant. His spirit and soul are wrought open by the death of his father. Magnificent just magnificent

  • @LuckyL0ki
    @LuckyL0ki 2 года назад +5

    this has gotta be the best thing on youtube

  • @gbfrota6739
    @gbfrota6739 3 года назад +7

    Perfect!

  • @kevinmarron5231
    @kevinmarron5231 4 года назад +7

    "To be, "! OF COURSE! 👍

  • @elzbietabonthrone6584
    @elzbietabonthrone6584 3 года назад +11

    Oh,my God, my love...

  • @katehealy1473
    @katehealy1473 3 года назад +11

    Where was this during the leaving cert in 6th year?! I could listen to this morning noon and night

  • @etme1000
    @etme1000 4 года назад +6

    fantastic

  • @MagnusOfStheerinus
    @MagnusOfStheerinus Год назад +8

    Only got half a day to memorize this shit fucking hate my life

  • @alexandrajordan1889
    @alexandrajordan1889 3 года назад +16

    about to go feral

  • @wildpoetryproject
    @wildpoetryproject 3 года назад +11

    Magic. Conscience does make cowards of us all

  • @SoniaJbrt
    @SoniaJbrt 2 года назад +12

    Just one question: Could someone please explain this speech in length to me? As in College level analises please? I understand what it's about. Would just like to hear others analises on this. Thank you.

    • @chrisshannon1125
      @chrisshannon1125 2 года назад +3

      Life sucks and we're all going to die, mother nature is a bitch for giving us a conscious awareness of our own mortality

    • @patstocker3658
      @patstocker3658 Год назад +4

      He is contemplating suicide. He feels despondent at the shallowness of people, the court etc. live is meaningless. Despairing at the speed of his mother remarriage to his uncle and how quickly she seems to forgot the memory of his father. So basically life has few attractions for him. BUT the uncertainty of death, what does it hold? What terrors abide there in that ‘ uncertain country.’ And so he concludes it’s better staying with those you know than to go into an unknown world. Phew. Hope that’s of some help.

  • @Anicius_
    @Anicius_ 2 года назад +11

    "For-tiune"

  • @abigailwillis2592
    @abigailwillis2592 3 года назад +14

    Alright, he makes me hate shakespeare a little bit less.

  • @marissasifre9026
    @marissasifre9026 4 года назад +15

    Mmmmmmm ima sleep well tonight.

  • @nesaalli8778
    @nesaalli8778 Год назад

    I love sleeping you do not think of any thing all problems gone xx but lovely dream .

  • @beatrizhayashi7125
    @beatrizhayashi7125 4 года назад +7

    Ser ou não ser?? Eis a questão

  • @b.savage8953
    @b.savage8953 7 месяцев назад

    Excellent read 💯 ❤😊

  • @claudiamanta1943
    @claudiamanta1943 9 месяцев назад

    It cannot compare with the Ancient Egyptian Dispute of a Man with His Soul. ‘Death is in my sight today, like a man’s longing to see home after he has spent many years in captivity’.

  • @jamlife919
    @jamlife919 3 года назад +7

    Hamlet doesn’t hold yorvik during this soliloquy

  • @pawejerzymigdalski
    @pawejerzymigdalski 3 года назад +10

    What the f... Yorick's scull is doing here? There' no such a scene in Hamlet's soliloquy!

  • @AtomTwain
    @AtomTwain Год назад +2

    To be?or not to be¿ The answer is IAM 🙏😇

  • @hughmanatee7657
    @hughmanatee7657 6 месяцев назад +3

    This is not about suicide. This is about “taking arms against a sea of troubles,” even at the risk of death.

    • @winningsince1992
      @winningsince1992 2 месяца назад

      No its about being to scaree to commit sucide because of PTSD dreams

  • @shadowinversion
    @shadowinversion 9 месяцев назад +3

    This is just dictation, his performance in What If was brilliant

  • @dizzydino1
    @dizzydino1 2 года назад +3

    Hmmm, nice

  • @neilbruce2624
    @neilbruce2624 Год назад +1

    What's he talking about? The longer I listen the more convinced I become he doesn't know either.

  • @Happyheart146
    @Happyheart146 2 года назад

    Heartbreaking.

  • @ha1k1k88
    @ha1k1k88 4 года назад +4

    Wow

  • @haydaliswhitehead2579
    @haydaliswhitehead2579 2 года назад +3

    Amore mio

  • @pauldockree9915
    @pauldockree9915 2 года назад +5

    Tom Hiddleston read Philip Larkin's The Mower to me (just JUST me) via this RUclips.
    A Hedgehog's misfortune when unobserved is slain by well someone presumably mowing (sic) grass.
    The poem ends thus
    Killed. It had been in the long grass.
    I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
    Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
    Unmendably. Burial was no help:
    Next morning I got up and it did not.
    The first day after a death, the new absence
    Is always the same; we should be careful
    Of each other, we should be kind
    While there is still time.

  • @Книжныйчервь-я2к
    @Книжныйчервь-я2к Год назад +2

    ❤❤❤

  • @haileyswift5485
    @haileyswift5485 Год назад +3

    0:07

  • @dara_1989
    @dara_1989 Год назад +2

    a few words when modernised ... make sense 😘❤️

  • @chuckufarley1343
    @chuckufarley1343 3 года назад +28

    Sorry, this is not very good. Yes he has a nice voice, but it sounds like he’s just reading it off a page. In the play Hamlet is contemplating suicide during this soliloquy. Check out David Tennant’s version. He’s someone who can actually act.

    • @emavarga835
      @emavarga835 3 года назад +42

      Well, the name of the video itself says Tom was reading it, not acting.

    • @amandahds8164
      @amandahds8164 3 года назад +7

      @@Ben-pd2bx Have you seen his Coriolanus ?

    • @laurendorman9440
      @laurendorman9440 3 года назад +14

      @@Ben-pd2bx he puts his everything into his Shakespeare performances; you can see clearly his passion and wonderment for the playwright’s work, so I personally disagree with you

    • @theaterpup3466
      @theaterpup3466 3 года назад +7

      @@Ben-pd2bx Could not disagree more. But hey at least you got to feel smug on the Internet.

    • @theaterpup3466
      @theaterpup3466 3 года назад +4

      @@Ben-pd2bx Lol so go feel bad, dude. Have fun with that.

  • @amvolounge
    @amvolounge 2 года назад

    1:17

  • @АлександрРусаков-в4с

    Rodriguez Karen Wilson Kenneth Jackson Sharon

  • @juliannoel5715
    @juliannoel5715 Год назад +4

    So.... this is a man contemplating suicide? Methinks not my leige...

    • @TonyBittner-Collins
      @TonyBittner-Collins 11 месяцев назад +1

      More than suicide, I think Hamlet's conflicted about the ethics and morality behind seeking revenge (and his possible death) or doing nothing about it. He ponders the fear of the unknown after dying or the miserable life he'd continue having by his inaction. It all comes down to consequences.

  • @juliannoel5715
    @juliannoel5715 Год назад +1

    Flat. No inner life.

  • @johnvcorbett6528
    @johnvcorbett6528 2 года назад +2

    Also awful. Just awful.

    • @ManuelDornbusch
      @ManuelDornbusch 2 года назад

      remarkably awful and quite surprising so, isn't it? He can do better.
      Here is his Henry V ruclips.net/video/S-rryLI4vpA/видео.html
      but this here, this Hamlet, shockingly flat
      Here is how you do it. Branagh ruclips.net/video/SjuZq-8PUw0/видео.html

  • @zacharynowhere
    @zacharynowhere 9 дней назад

    *pith