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William Shakespeare: Hamlet

Read by John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast

William Shakespeare: Hamlet

William Shakespeare: Hamlet

Read by John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast

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This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever, and one of John Gielgud’s greatest moments. Though he went on to record it for commercial release, nothing matched this recording in the BBC studios, made before the days of editing.

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Hamlet
Work length3:25:34
Act 1 Scene 1
Track length10:15
Act 1 Scene 2
Track length7:41
Act 1 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: O that this too too solid flesh...
Track length7:16
Act 1 Scene 3
Track length2:36
Act 1 Scene 3 (cont): Polonius: Yet here, Laertes?
Track length4:22
Act 1 Scene 4
Track length2:06
Act 1 Scene 4 (cont): Hamlet: Angels and ministers of grace...
Track length2:50
Act 1 Scene 5
Track length0:49
Act 1 Scene 5 (cont): Ghost: I am thy father’s spirit
Track length5:45
Act 1 Scene 5 (cont): Hamlet: O all you host of Heaven!
Track length6:23
Act 2 Scene 1
Track length3:52
Act 2 Scene 1 (cont): Ophelia: My lord, as I was sewing in my closet...
Track length2:14
Act 2 Scene 2
Track length4:10
Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Polonius: My liege, and madam, to expostulate...
Track length4:49
Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Polonius: How does my good Lord Hamlet?
Track length2:23
Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Polonius: You go to seek the Lord Hamlet...
Track length5:24
Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Guildenstern: There are the players
Track length1:46
Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: Y’are welcome masters, welcome all
Track length2:11
Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): 1 Player: Anon he finds him, striking too short...
Track length4:37
Act 2 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Track length3:40
Act 3 Scene 1
Track length2:52
Act 3 Scene 1 (cont): Hamlet: To be, or not to be, that is the question
Track length5:41
Act 3 Scene 1 (cont): Ophelia: Oh what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!
Track length2:12
Act 3 Scene 2
Track length4:20
Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: They are coming to the play
Track length2:31
Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Player King: Full thirty times hath Phoebus’...
Track length4:15
Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Lucianus: Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit...
Track length3:06
Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: Oh, the recorders. Let me see one
Track length1:39
Act 3 Scene 2 (cont): Hamlet: ‘Tis now the very witching time of night
Track length0:52
Act 3 Scene 3
Track length1:47
Act 3 Scene 3 (cont): Claudius: Oh my offence is rank, it smells...
Track length2:59
Act 3 Scene 3 (cont): Hamlet: Now might I do it pat...
Track length1:48
Act 3 Scene 4
Track length2:45
Act 3 Scene 4 (cont): Hamlet: Look here upon this picture...
Track length2:28
Act 3 Scene 4 (cont): Hamlet: Save me and hover o’er me...
Track length2:18
Act 3 Scene 4 (cont): Gertrude: This is the very coinage....
Track length4:24
Act 4 Scene 1
Track length2:16
Act 4 Scene 2
Track length1:12
Act 4 Scene 3
Track length3:31
Act 4 Scene 4
Track length1:46
Act 4 Scene 4 (cont): Hamlet: How all occasions do inform...
Track length2:30
Act 4 Scene 5
Track length1:21
Act 4 Scene 5 (cont): Ophelia: Where is the beauteous majesty...
Track length5:47
Act 4 Scene 5 (cont): Laertes: O thou vile king...
Track length1:47
Act 4 Scene 5 (cont): Laertes: O heat dry up my brains...
Track length3:47
Act 4 Scene 6
Track length1:47
Act 4 Scene 7
Track length7:08
Act 4 Scene 7 (cont): Laertes: I bought an unction of a mountebank...
Track length1:28
Act 4 Scene 7 (cont): Gertrude: There is a willow grows aslant...
Track length2:01
Act 5 Scene 1
Track length3:25
Act 5 Scene 1 (cont): Clown: In youth when I did love...
Track length5:14
Act 5 Scene 1 (cont): Hamlet: Alas poor Yorick!
Track length1:56
Act 5 Scene 1 (cont): Hamlet: But soft, but soft!
Track length4:23
Act 5 Scene 2
Track length3:40
Act 5 Scene 2 (cont): Osric: Your lordship is right welcome...
Track length6:02
Act 5 Scene 2 (cont): Claudius: Come Hamlet, come and take this hand...
Track length10:27
Act 5 Scene 2 (cont): Fortinbras: Where is this sight?
Track length3:00
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