Hamlet 3.4 (Gielgud) The Closet Scene with Gertrude

Introduced by Gielgud's friend and fellow Shakespearean actor, Sir Ralph Richardson. From the LP "Sir John Gielgud in His Greatest Rôles". I digitized this some years ago while at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford.

Gielgud: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/theatre-obituar...
Richardson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Richardson

Read along: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/hamlet.3.4.html
(For some reason it says "Queen Margaret" at the top. Oops, wrong play!)


Selections from the album:

I. Richardson on Gielgud and Gielgud on Hamlet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGXtUjb7jKo&fmt=18
II. Three Hamlet Soliloquies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCyjXJ9oogg&fmt=18
III. (this video)
IV. Three Richard II Speeches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDF18fGmta4&fmt=18
V. Lear (Cursing of Goneril): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAtlWGU9ixc&fmt=18
VI. Tempest 4.1 (Leave Not a Rack Behind): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxECpwmIEWQ&fmt=18
VII. Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0o49qFEmP4&fmt=18

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