Andrew's delivery of this is the only one that has ever had me hooked on every word and I'm ashamed to say, the one that made me understand what on earth it's about.
This is exactly how you feel too. I come back to this all the time and was ashamed to realize how much I Didn't understand of this famous monologue. So beautiful and talented
Huge Adam Scott (apologies for getting his name wrong ). I am an amateur actor but I have revenge experience. IMHO , that was a great acting thingy. However , when choosing between life and death, seeking revenge, you don’t act you show life, and I didn’t see that here. I saw contemplation, stoic even. I don’t see what the actual emotion feels like . In short , great acting , but doesn’t reflect reality.
To me this is the most authentic because we hear him thinking through the dilemma whereas other performances seem memorized while forgetting the fact that hamlet is trying to assess and navigate a dilemma
This is truly the greatest performance of that monologue that I have ever seen. I am in equal parts, moved, in awe of his performance and embarrassed that I have not until just now, really understood what Hamlet is grappling with in this scene. Bravo Andrew Scott.
I love this performance. There may be a particular way of acting this that is in line with custom, sounding a bit like recitation at a state ceremony. I don't know if it is that or the reverence that the actors and the production have for this soliloquy. There is always a grandness in other interpretations. Sometimes, they strain toward mustering the grim and the darkness. I like the emotional transparency, of someone speaking thoughts in a vulnerable state. It allows me to access the language easier. I've understood these lines better with Mr. Scott's phrasing and tone.
Please Please the whole soliloquy !!! For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud's man contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law's delay, the insolence of office and the cut that such masterpiece cannot take ...
Listened to this a few times and read through an easy english version of the monologue before returning and watching it a few times more. I now think I can grasp quite a bit of it. Thanks to Andrew and to you. Amazingly done!
@@deckogond5458 “we end the heartache…” he’s rubbing his chest over his aching heart. It’s something he does a couple other times in the play. Treating his heart like a sore muscle.
Please put up the whole play. Why? I'm 79 and have seen the Hamlets of Burton, Olivier, Plummer, Fiennes, Kinnear, Brannagh, Tennant, Jacobi, etc. etc. 23 in all. This is the best. It would be a great service to make it available.
Thank you so much for this 🙏🏻💙 Please put the whole play on RUclips if you can, or male DVD’s - I would die to see it and it was never available to watch in Italy 🇮🇹 😞. I would be happily purchase it if it were possible, I so much wish I could see the whole performance!
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 wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, 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.
To be,or not to be,that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler în 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 heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die-To sleep To sleep: perchance to dream : ay,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 .
Beautiful! Andrew has the skill to pull the soliloquy off. Branaugh's version is still my favorite. Waited a long time for Branaugh to do this... but ❤❤❤ them both.
Wow is there aDVD version that I can buy? I finally can understand what is being said, without the old language and the rhyme f' up my meager understanding of the english language.
I applaud Scott's innovation given the sheer number of people who have performed this and the need to contribute something new. BUT, this raises the question as to why even have verse at all when he's going to deliver it as natural speech with no rhythm or elevation. He has removed the point of poetry, which is that the rhythm and elevation gives us a mix of expressions that nothing else can deliver. It seems what he's done here is translate the verse to natural modern speech and then transplant those inflections into the verse. The reason people love it is for the first time, they're hearing something understandable because it's just normal speech and they don't need to tune their ear to fashion understanding from the verse. I caution people in this. It's better to go the long way round and learn to hear the depth in the poetry.
Jonas R oh, I thought you were referencing the song by Queen that they play during one of Jim Moriarty’s scenes in Sherlock (Moriarty is portrayed by Andrew Scott, in case you were unaware). Sorry if you weren’t referencing that 😂😂
You cannot abandon who you are to become something which you arent,who you are is given by your blood what you do with it is completely your choice,abandoning yourself to be wealthy is not gonna sustain the wealth I don't think anybody could actually build or become something based on change or constant mutability
beautiful reading... but if every scene was this slow it must have lasted ten hours - 'speak the speech I pray you, trippingly from the tongue"... the hard part is getting that level of detail at pace.
It’s really too casual and modern. That’s not Hamlet. Hamlet was big. He’s confusing real and naturalistic. Hamlet was really taken and confused. He’s not ordering a latte in Chelsea with his friends.
I agree this is a rambling collection of words. This is not the Hamlet that plans a play to see how his uncle reacts. Yes Hamlet is conflicted but that doesn't mean you have to spread out Will's poetry as though it was disconnected.
Not a fan of this delivery. Felt like he was trying to instruct an audience, which is NOT what Hamlet is doing in this scene. At this point in the play, Hamlet should come across sane, but exhausted. Andrew Scott here gives us somewhat the opposite-a bit loony, and with energy. It came across more like a TED talk than anything. Why would Hamlet ever speak these lines as though he were delivering a TED talk?! No thanks. I'll pass on this one. I've seen amateurs give more true renditions than this. Where was the despair? The depression? The hopelessness? The fatigue? The exasperation with this world's injustices and hurts? This was a perfect example of what not to do with Hamlet's soliloquy.
Andrew's delivery of this is the only one that has ever had me hooked on every word and I'm ashamed to say, the one that made me understand what on earth it's about.
This is exactly how you feel too. I come back to this all the time and was ashamed to realize how much I Didn't understand of this famous monologue. So beautiful and talented
Same here ...
benedict cumberbatch’s was also really really good, you should check it out if you haven’t
Perhaps you never found your own Hamlet.
Huge Adam Scott (apologies for getting his name wrong ).
I am an amateur actor but I have revenge experience. IMHO , that was a great acting thingy. However , when choosing between life and death, seeking revenge, you don’t act you show life, and I didn’t see that here. I saw contemplation, stoic even.
I don’t see what the actual emotion feels like . In short , great acting , but doesn’t reflect reality.
To me this is the most authentic because we hear him thinking through the dilemma whereas other performances seem memorized while forgetting the fact that hamlet is trying to assess and navigate a dilemma
I've never hear Shakespeare's words sound so natural and authentic. Brilliant work
It must be so difficult to perform such a well-known speech in a unique way. Andrew Scott nails it!
I LOVE this performance. Best i've seen. Really makes you understand the feelings behind the thoughts. Andrew Scott is simply great
This is truly the greatest performance of that monologue that I have ever seen. I am in equal parts, moved, in awe of his performance and embarrassed that I have not until just now, really understood what Hamlet is grappling with in this scene. Bravo Andrew Scott.
A superb delivery. I'm hearing this afresh, and feeling it deeply. Andrew Scott is one of our very finest actors.
It is to understand the lines, and deliver them with meaning, generations later, to an audience that would not otherwise know them.
I love this performance. There may be a particular way of acting this that is in line with custom, sounding a bit like recitation at a state ceremony. I don't know if it is that or the reverence that the actors and the production have for this soliloquy. There is always a grandness in other interpretations. Sometimes, they strain toward mustering the grim and the darkness. I like the emotional transparency, of someone speaking thoughts in a vulnerable state. It allows me to access the language easier. I've understood these lines better with Mr. Scott's phrasing and tone.
It really speaks to the quality of schools that I read this play twice and never understood what this scene was about until now
I have never been convinced by anyone’s delivery of that speech. Until now. I get it now.
Now THAT was unique. The best rendition I have heard.
Please Please the whole soliloquy !!! For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud's man contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law's delay, the insolence of office and the cut that such masterpiece cannot take ...
Listened to this a few times and read through an easy english version of the monologue before returning and watching it a few times more. I now think I can grasp quite a bit of it. Thanks to Andrew and to you. Amazingly done!
I would love to see the whole play. This actor is great. Love his acting here
He is great, the way he is saying those lines become alive ❤
I remember seeing the full performance on BBC a while ago. I was amazed and it really got me interested in Shakespeare.
Very different. Very convincing.
"Aye there's the rub" - the moment he stop rubbing himself
Why does he rub himself? Please help
@@deckogond5458 awkward hands
@@deckogond5458 “we end the heartache…” he’s rubbing his chest over his aching heart. It’s something he does a couple other times in the play. Treating his heart like a sore muscle.
@@deckogond5458 To console himself, me thinks.
Dude
I'm so touched 😢😢😢
That was so cool. Andrew Scott is a great actor.
Please put up the whole play. Why? I'm 79 and have seen the Hamlets of Burton, Olivier, Plummer, Fiennes, Kinnear, Brannagh, Tennant, Jacobi, etc. etc. 23 in all. This is the best. It would be a great service to make it available.
I don't know if you've seen, but the full version is on RUclips!
This is THE BEST version of this.
I wish I could find the whole performance, it's beautiful
His and David Tennant's are the best versions I've seen
It's available on RUclips
That's impactful.
He makes Hamlet's perspective utterly understandable. What a performance.
Just incredible
Please put up the entire play.... please, please, please.
Such a great actor he is.
Thank you so much for this 🙏🏻💙 Please put the whole play on RUclips if you can, or male DVD’s - I would die to see it and it was never available to watch in Italy 🇮🇹 😞. I would be happily purchase it if it were possible, I so much wish I could see the whole performance!
If anyone ask u if u know an underrated actor u show him/her this! Andrew is simply great
Yes please let us have the details so that I think I can I will be in touch
this is incredible
The self soothing mannerisms are genius
This gives me major goosebumps
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 wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, 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.
To be,or not to be,that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler în 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 heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die-To sleep
To sleep: perchance to dream : ay,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 .
OKAY STOP HE’S PERFECTLY PERFECT. 😩😫😭😩😫😭😱😰😷🤮🤤🤤🥶😭😫😩
Half expecting hismphone to go off playing the beegees 'staying alive'😂😂
He was gooood in Sherlock
Stunning.
Beautiful! Andrew has the skill to pull the soliloquy off. Branaugh's version is still my favorite. Waited a long time for Branaugh to do this... but ❤❤❤ them both.
Woah
I've seen hamlet about 100+ times in very different theatres in 6 different language's and if this is the way he performs it he beats them all.
His reading and cadence is precisely why kids in school need to SEE this vs read it.
This is brilliant because we also get to see what it would be like if Dylan Moran played Hamlet.
Shakespeare was a master at capturing the human condition. Such a tragic and yet beautiful soliloquy.
How can we watch the whole thing online?! THIS IS SO GOOD!
I have been unable to find it.
@@PeterJarrell ruclips.net/video/Q3VleU6au9E/видео.html
This is my personal favorite one
Holy carp. this man is an Actor with a capital A.
brilliant...
andrew was utterly brilliant in this piece :3
Moriarty really nailed it!!
amazing
Wow is there aDVD version that I can buy?
I finally can understand what is being said, without the old language and the rhyme f' up my meager understanding of the english language.
"TO SLEEP!" I feel that in my bones no more no less.
Does anyone know where I can watch/buy/download this performance?? I need to see it in its entirety
Is there anyway to purchase a copy of this production?
that was weird of Hamlet vision
Only Hamlet that matters.
Is it fair to describe this delivery as 'naturalistic'? It seems easier to relate to than the usual "thespian" style I've heard a hundred times.
How much do you thingk the prompt sweats during performances as dribbly as this?
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I applaud Scott's innovation given the sheer number of people who have performed this and the need to contribute something new. BUT, this raises the question as to why even have verse at all when he's going to deliver it as natural speech with no rhythm or elevation. He has removed the point of poetry, which is that the rhythm and elevation gives us a mix of expressions that nothing else can deliver. It seems what he's done here is translate the verse to natural modern speech and then transplant those inflections into the verse. The reason people love it is for the first time, they're hearing something understandable because it's just normal speech and they don't need to tune their ear to fashion understanding from the verse. I caution people in this. It's better to go the long way round and learn to hear the depth in the poetry.
Excellent observation
Fire as the youth say
Fire
Wow. I haven't seen Hamlet since Mr. Cumberbatch...
Quatrième mur
Damn, this guy's good.
I want to break freee 🕺
Jonas R I sang this
@@faesforest what?
Jonas R oh, I thought you were referencing the song by Queen that they play during one of Jim Moriarty’s scenes in Sherlock (Moriarty is portrayed by Andrew Scott, in case you were unaware). Sorry if you weren’t referencing that 😂😂
@@faesforest i was referencing it but i didnt really inderstand your comment xD
only half of it? you are kidding!
this is my drama hw :
lol
👀🧡🧡🧡
You cannot abandon who you are to become something which you arent,who you are is given by your blood what you do with it is completely your choice,abandoning yourself to be wealthy is not gonna sustain the wealth I don't think anybody could actually build or become something based on change or constant mutability
beautiful reading... but if every scene was this slow it must have lasted ten hours - 'speak the speech I pray you, trippingly from the tongue"... the hard part is getting that level of detail at pace.
All I have in my mind is that he’s moriarty talking to Sherlock
lmao yep
What a small mind you must have.
My drama work btw
Hamlet was mad, not a fool
Uop
Jaaonm
The delivery is overloaded with trite method-acting techniques. Andrew Scott is clueless about Shakespeare.
what an awful opinion you have.
If you think he’s a meisner actor
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It’s really too casual and modern. That’s not Hamlet. Hamlet was big. He’s confusing real and naturalistic.
Hamlet was really taken and confused. He’s not ordering a latte in Chelsea with his friends.
He' is FAN f#cking-tastic
Jesus-actually-Christ, just when you think surely no one, NO ONE could make Shakey Shakespeare any more boring!
I don't love this....
I agree this is a rambling collection of words. This is not the Hamlet that plans a play to see how his uncle reacts. Yes Hamlet is conflicted but that doesn't mean you have to spread out Will's poetry as though it was disconnected.
@@drjjpdc He seems more confused than conflicted.
Absolutely awful - terrible acting, how does he get away with it?
His hand gestures are really distracting 😢
They’re really not. I’ve never seen a better performance of this monologue. He perfectly captures the contrast that many actors blow right through.
Dreadful. He ruined the whole scene
Worst TED Talk ever.
Not a fan of this delivery. Felt like he was trying to instruct an audience, which is NOT what Hamlet is doing in this scene. At this point in the play, Hamlet should come across sane, but exhausted. Andrew Scott here gives us somewhat the opposite-a bit loony, and with energy. It came across more like a TED talk than anything. Why would Hamlet ever speak these lines as though he were delivering a TED talk?! No thanks. I'll pass on this one. I've seen amateurs give more true renditions than this. Where was the despair? The depression? The hopelessness? The fatigue? The exasperation with this world's injustices and hurts? This was a perfect example of what not to do with Hamlet's soliloquy.
This is terrible. Ridiculous. An insult to Shakespeare.
I've seen a lot worse. It's not that bad.
This is atrocious, boring and uninspired.
I couldn't have done it better, but I might have done it equally terribly.
Rubbish
I can actually... understand this, if that makes sense?
I don't really know how to describe it.
But why no Hot Pirest reference in the comments?!🥲