Hamlet

The entire play.

[@joshualane5854]

Act 1 Scene 1 - 0:01:35 Scene 2 - 0:12:45 Scene 3 - 0:27:35 Scene 4 - 0:35:00 Scene 5 - 0:39:50 Act 2 Scene 1 - 0:51:20 Scene 2 - 0:57:35 Act 3 Scene 1 - 1:32:25 Scene 2 - 1:44:45 Scene 3 - 2:06:10 Scene 4 - 2:12:20 Act 4 Scene 1 - 2:25:50 Scene 2 - 2:28:35 Scene 3 - 2:29:50 Scene 4 - 2:33:15 Scene 5 - 2:41:05 Scene 6 - 2:55:30 Scene 7 - 2:57:00 Act 5 Scene 1 - 3:08:10 Scene 2 - 3:23:40

[@ianrispin4938]

Thank you!

[@MiaFeigelsonGallery]

Joshua, thank you very much indeed !

[@papasins8896]

Ms Martin hope you see this you aul Milf

[@mohamedsoumahoro9212]

Life saver 💯

[@maudalamachere7341]

Thanks for sharing this, it is greatly appreciated 🙏🙏

[@Happyheart146]

The best actors in the industry. I knew this was going to be good when I heard the cast. Thay seriously bring it to life. The Sexton's riddles in particular have an amazing charm!

[@bammer150]

This was my first full experience of Shakespeare, here at 25 years old. Thank you for uploading this. it was an amazing experience to hear this as I read the play along.

[@Rackellesh727]

i read along with my book while listening, and their emotion and tone really helped the text make more sense. thank you so much!

[@alana2998]

+owlface rachelcrown It's true! It helps a lot while reading it in paper :)

[@HeadphoneDisaster29]

Yes! The acting was really helpful and the background music really helped set the mood!! If it weren't for this I don't think I would have finished reading on time :3

[@jeremianlastly7668]

Yes, me too!

[@user-pp9kt2lj9i]

vanny please can you help me l don't understand l feel sad

[@pedrocastelo7100]

Hey, what is the edition that you use? I want to read the book while listening...

[@jrpipik]

Cast: The Renaissance Theatre Company: Paul Gregory (Bernardo), Alex Lowe (Francisco), Michael Williams (Horatio), Andrew Jarvis (Marcellus), Dereck Jacobi (Claudius), Shaun Prendergast (Voltemand), Mark Hadfield (Cornelius), James Wilby (Laertes), Richard Briers (Polonius), Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet), Judi Dench (Gertrude), Sophie Thompson (Ophelia), John Gielgud (ghost), Mark Hadfield (Reynaldo), Gerard Horan (Rosencrantz), Christopher Ravenscroft (Guildenstern). Performers: Music composed by Patrick Doyle ; music performed by Patrick Doyle and John Powell Directed by Kenneth Branagh and Glyn Dearman. Event notes: Recorded at the BBC Maida Vale Studios between January 5th and January 12th, 1992. First broadcast was on BBC Radio 3.

[@WeemusStudio2017]

Derek. Thanks!

[@yourbuddyunit]

God's work ol chap.

[@chrais78]

Thank you. I thought I heard Branagh and Dench and you confirmed it.

[@MiaFeigelsonGallery]

Thank you very much indeed !!!

[@maddydiment5294]

The best audio book version I've come across!

[@shamimyasmeen7909]

its for sure the best

[@grogu1172]

To APLit: a repost Act I Scene 1 - 0:01:35 Scene 2 - 0:12:45 Scene 3 - 0:27:35 Scene 4 - 0:35:00 Scene 5 - 0:39:50 Act II Scene 1 - 0:51:20 Scene 2 - 0:57:35 Act III Scene 1 - 1:32:25 Scene 2 - 1:44:45 Scene 3 - 2:06:10 Scene 4 - 2:12:20 Act IV Scene 1 - 2:25:50 Scene 2 - 2:28:35 Scene 3 - 2:29:50 Scene 4 - 2:33:15 Scene 5 - 2:41:05 Scene 6 - 2:55:30 Scene 7 - 2:57:00 Act V Scene 1 - 3:08:10 Scene 2 - 3:23:40

[@stephensmith5982]

I am thinking that the only true way to completely appreciate Shakespeare is to hear it and see it performed on stage or even film by good actors.

[@Monadshavenowindows]

Seeing it performed in the theatre is how such art was intended to be experienced, not merely reading it. I wish I could upload (I can’t for copyright reasons) some wonderful performances of Shakespeare and Marlowe at the Globe Theatre. I believe the three I had copies of were Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), Love’s Labour’s Lost (one of my favorite Shakespeare plays), and Midnight Summer’s Dream. I highly recommend my viewers to experience these great performances on video.

[@gurneyhalleck7575]

I disagree. Reading the play itself and an audio production like this IMMENSELY help in appreciating it.

[@ashleightompkins3200]

Truer word were never spoken. The bard is the bard and that is a playwright, with all the trappings and triumphs that come bestowed upon such an occupation.

[@malamati007]

The text appears to be the Arden Shakespeare -- a reliable version of the play. Excellent production.

[@simonmcgrath4112]

Just brilliant!! Never ever get bored of this absolute mouthwatering, sublimely acted masterpiece!! I definitely do protest the brilliance of this play far too much

[@paddymeboy]

Yes.

[@Paulkazey1]

I listened to this on cassette back in the 1990s. A great dramatic performance with full sound effects and music.

[@daniellemcgee4761]

This is like my 3rd time around listing to this.

[@It9LpBFS37]

This is one of the most beautiful play reenacting i have ever heard!

[@blackmetalmagick1]

Hamlet and Macbeth... gold dust to my ears!

[@brettcolbert9756]

One of my favorite plays!!! Thanks for uploading this.

[@MiaFeigelsonGallery]

@Bent Outta Shape Chess, thanks for uploading this fantastic recording ! The performances are so spectacular that while following the lines with the text, I can't but feel as if I were in Denmark myself. The haunting music and sound effects intensify both the atmosphere of evil and darkness and the psychological drama which pervade the play. My deepest congratulations to all involved . @Bent Outta Shape Chess, thanks again and again !

[@maestroclassico5801]

Well done .....I did love the visual spectacle of Branagh's film version...with Branagh and Jacobi.....so very bright....a deliberate contrast to Olivier's film version.

[@sahilspst8399]

This might be greatest thing i've ever listened to

[@IbrahimHoldsForth]

it's a treasure

[@roro2494]

'tis a good rendition, acted gently and pronounced trippingly on the tongue. 'Tis not vulgar nor o'erdone but smooth and whole. For it did not o'erstep the modesty of nature but as 'twere held the mirror up to nature beautifully.

[@tracik1277]

The Oracle edited lol

[@brihal6498]

Shakespeare would be proud!

[@Happyheart146]

Riddles :)

[@HO-bndk]

Methinks thou dost protest too much 😊

[@gurneyhalleck7575]

What a slippery play. That's why it lasts. You can't pin it down. It feels so ALIVE. So many ironies -- eg, from Laertes' perspective, Hamlet is like Claudius! Another example -- Claudius's soliloquy on the death of fathers, which -- while deeply moving -- is outrageously "ratty" and snake like coming from him!

[@josephsagum8592]

Act I Scene 1 - 0:01:35 Scene 2 - 0:12:45 Scene 3 - 0:27:35 Scene 4 - 0:35:00 Scene 5 - 0:39:50 Act II Scene 1 - 0:51:20 Scene 2 - 0:57:35 Act III Scene 1 - 1:32:25 Scene 2 - 1:44:45 Scene 3 - 2:06:10 Scene 4 - 2:12:20 Act IV Scene 1 - 2:25:50 Scene 2 - 2:28:35 Scene 3 - 2:29:50 Scene 4 - 2:33:15 Scene 5 - 2:41:05 Scene 6 - 2:55:30 Scene 7 - 2:57:00 Act V Scene 1 - 3:08:10 Scene 2 - 3:23:40

[@edisun_1239]

“O, speak of that! That do I long to hear.” Dead lmao

[@zenos59]

Thank you very much. This helped me understand and appreciate the story tenfold

[@GraemetheGuiriLordHaHa]

Forget Branagh's film version, this is *the version. I've heard it countless times and never tired of it.

[@p_nk7279]

But this is Branagh as Hamlet, and Derek Jacobi as Claudius, same as in the Branagh film.

[@BBC600]

I was going to watch the movie but it's harder to follow my text and the action on screen. This really has worked out well for my school assignment so far. :-)

[@xMiracleLover]

Timestamps for me to read the sections: 0:00 Act 1, Scene 1 11:59 Act 1, Scene 2 27:31 Act 1, Scene 3 35:00 Act 1, Scene 4 39:48 Act 1, Scene 5 51:11 Act 2, Scene 1 57:33 Act 2, Scene 2 1:32:30 Act 3, Scene 1 1:44:48: Act 3, Scene 2 2:06:11 Act 3, Scene 3 2:12:12 Act 3, Scene 4 2:25:48 Act 4, Scene 1 2:28:35 2:29:50

[@austingoyne3039]

"To be or not to be" @ 1:35:00

[@marcollano5917]

What a cast - Wonderful! Thank you for sharing!

[@oneshoalice]

holy cow! amazing. first time i've heard it performed with such passion

[@JevaisaNY]

Thank you, this is a brilliant recording.

[@Happyheart146]

I reckon, the grave digger wasn't just past sharp enough, to bite at the heels of the Lords, but knew whom he was addressing the whole time.

[@fredkitchen8940]

The best of all possible hamlets 👌🏿🤗

[@d3a1990]

Been searching for a good Hamlet audiobook... Judi Dench? Say no more. I’ve found the one.

[@michaelball3456]

the best audio version i have found. this is the writing of genius made bold as low sung song at even tide. even the exposition exists not to explain plot but to divine character. this is talent at its height; both in text and actor and direction. a skill level seldom seen. i always wondered about hamlet. when i first read this in my teens. i thought hamlet was truly mad. that he knew he was going insane and thus told everyone he was just pretending. fearing his own insanity. i thought hamlet jr. was the one who killed his father hamlet sr. as he lay sleeping in his garden. that the ghost of his father since he had not risen to heaven awareness just assumed his brother had killed him as he had taken his throne. that as hamlet jr.'s madness encased him, that he 'saw' claudius at his final prayer confessing; that it was an entire distorted mental image of projection by hamlet jr. i believed this at fifteen because i believed that the writer had done something no writer had ever done before or would attempt to do for a century or more since; that he lied to the audience in the asides. that hamlet jr. lied in all his confidential monologues with the audience. that he lied to us. he lied to himself. that he was truly going insane. and taking us, the audience, at arms length, with him. i have been told repeatedly that i am wrong. but i believe in the genius of the writer. i believe in the vision over reaching the era in which the writer lived. and yes. i still believe that hamlet jr. was truly going insane. that he murdered his father. that he tried to frame his uncle once the ghost had suggested it through its own ignorance. that this writer really was that good. writing a work a century or more before it's audience came into existence.

[@Happyheart146]

I believe you may have a point there. Hamlet WAS mad! I am almost 48 yrs old and only came to Shakespeare a few years ago. Being as old as I am, I'm finding the origins of much of my language and culture, which I've grown up with and been surrounded by all my life. I understand now why people say he's England's answer to Dante. I'm only sad that it's taken me a lifetime to enjoy it, that I've lived a whole life without the pleasure of the bard. Thank you for contributing here. Very good food for thought!

[@timosaarinen9126]

Thanks for this! Need to see Hamlet on a stage someday.

[@EagerChildEdits]

Thank you so much for uploading this, it helped me tremendously!

[@smallbrownfox594]

Best version - no doubt.

[@p_nk7279]

It’s interesting how different this actually is from the Branagh film version, which is amazing. I like Judi Dench here as Gertrude though.

[@Tezman82]

This cast is out of control!

[@TheHadiye]

Brilliant performance!

[@pseudoplotinus]

Finishing this, I never realised how many Shakespeare references have actually made their way into Spongebob

[@quickchris10comcast]

Rosencrantz and Gildenstern sound like those towns in the Ruhrgebiet, Rechlinghausen/Gildenkirchen

[@corybanter]

In some ways, I think this recording is better than Branagh's film of Hamlet.

[@JonnKammeron]

In short, twas a wise reflection from upon the text!

[@PlntPeace]

IMHO, overall Jacobi plays the best Hamlet. Oliviers' 1948 performance I've seen only once before I came to know Shakespeare's full body of work and need to see it again. Jacobi's "To Be Or Not To Be" soliloquy was amazing for me because of his personal relationship he establishes with us in the seconds before the thought comes to him and with no other thing to distract us, he has to nail it ...and he does. Hamlet is one of the greatest stories ever told, however I can't decide how I really feel about the end. Hamlet a Martyr, or Hamlet a King? That is the question.

[@IanMcGarrett]

PlntPeace Surely this is Kenneth Brannagh?

[@PlntPeace]

Ian McGarrett Yes it is... I'm speaking to Jacobi's performance as Hamlet in his younger acting days. It is the version of Hamlet I know well and is my favorite, from the Box Set (BBC and Time Life production) also containing Othello, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. Patrick Stewart and Claire Bloom also star.

[@chickenschnitzel]

+PlntPeace You should check out the Christopher Plummer version, shot at Elsinore Castle. Michael Caine is Horatio, Donald Sutherland is Fortinbras and Robert Shaw is the best Claudius ever.

[@johnlocke5157]

I expected so much more from the ghost performance especially from such a renowned actor so flat emotionless even perfunctory as if he would really rather be somewhere else

[@johnlocke5157]

Totally agree. Brian Blessed in the film was far better.

[@juanfernandojimenezbuitrag2434]

totally love british english , saludos desde Colombia

[@sky-sx5gt]

i have the updated folger shakespeare library version of hamlet. is there different version of hamlet? i was just wondering.

[@BBC600]

Wonder how many CDs or tapes this originally took up? Thanks for the upload I just now finished the play and can proceed to do the last couple assignments about Hamlet.

[@gustavr4073]

BEST READING EVER! AND NOT FROM LIVRIBOX

[@ergbudster3333]

Seems to be the BBC version but not identified as such.

[@gvivo2120]

The Librivox version is rather hideous and offensive to the human ear.

[@IbrahimHoldsForth]

Livribox productions NEVER have this quality (and I'm not speaking of the actors). I like the Librobox project though because they make a lot of content available (some of it fairly obscure.)

[@Wild_Kat_]

To appreciate the audio-visual productions, one MUST read Shakespeare first. I recommend the following annotated editions of the complete works: “Pelican”, “Arden”, “Oxford Modern Critical” and, if you can afford it, “Riverside”. The essay on Shakespeare’s language in the older Oxford edition is a must read. If you are a beginner, don’t buy it; it is not annotated. Borrow from a library. I’ve also read Dickens, Melville, Tolstoy, Eliot, Homer, Virgil, Tacitus, and Chaucer. Shakespeare is, hands down, my ALL TIME favourite. 🎉

[@paulis94]

51:00 Act III The best Hamlet Audiobook in youtube

[@IbrahimHoldsForth]

i'd be pleasantly surprised if there is a better Hamlet audio production out there

[@catecowan5522]

Does anyone know the actors that are reading for this audiobook are? It sounds like judi dench might be the queen?

[@bertiesongs]

It says at the start of the recording all the actors and the parts they play

[@jeremianlastly7668]

Note to self: @ 56:54 Ophelia- "No, my good Lord, but as you did command I did repel his letters, and denied his access to me."

[@trevpr1]

Thanks for this.

[@chandrimadas3462]

Does this have a video version? I'd love to watch it

[@josemurillo3501]

thank you for this

[@Happyheart146]

1:11:58 Hamlet's soliloquy.

[@fanficparker]

are such great audios available for king lear?

[@janderson2653]

Goes hard

[@skwbtm1]

Hamlet Text shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html

[@thedream-workdoesnotthink4512]

It'll never catch on

[@mckavitt]

The dream-work does not think It already has. Big time. Now the US will destroy the whole shebang w lots of help from Hollowwood.

[@quickchris10comcast]

What Lord Polonius saying, ``neither a borrower, nor a lender be . . .to thine own self be true?'' You're right, that will never catch on.

[@kirk93814]

Yea, I doth spake offensive words to express mine own enjoyment at the bard's Hamlet.

[@huntervalleyhinterlands]

59:11 - start of Act II Scene I

[@sharifprice2303]

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Price of Denmark

[@_shir0gan379]

What are the songs played in this?

[@virgil2004]

to be, or not to be 1:35:20

[@austingoyne3039]

Mark Act III Scene I 1:32:25

[@MrVirgilius]

"Go to a nunnery" scene starts at kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5endJaAiLxqr7M

[@ianrispin4938]

Can somebody post the timestamps?

[@roninhelgeson2491]

Scene 2 act 2 is at 57:40

[@MAMASASMAMA]

16:34 pure sauce

[@mikemikemcc8002]

KooKoo for Cocopuffs over this.

[@mikemikemcc8002]

watch this.

[@huntervalleyhinterlands]

1:18:29 - Hamlet welcomes the actors

[@skwbtm1]

August Wilhelm von Schlegel's 1767-1845 German translation of Romeo und Julia by William Shakespeare www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6996

[@SeanNessman]

Judi Dench

[@huntervalleyhinterlands]

3:31:48 - hamlet prepares for the duel with laertes

[@austingoyne3039]

Mark Act II Scene 1 0:51:20

[@Pundit2k]

Could not find--when was this recorded?

[@matthewmarquis4677]

51:22 1:32:23 2:25:53

[@lordz35]

Shoutout to English class y’all know what’s up

[@Dontbestupidlittleboy]

You're so lucky you had this in English class. I only wish I had.

[@huntervalleyhinterlands]

2:41:09 - Act 4 Scene 5

[@skwbtm1]

LORD POLONIUS Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!

[@quickchris10comcast]

Words of wisdom to live by.

[@johnny2145]

dank memes

[@EliseLxo]

well if it isnt another bored student

[@johnny2145]

but of course aha

[@LionelWitchieWardrob]

Is Hamlet a meme? I'm still on the Greeks anyway. I shouldn't even be here.

[@Neuroneos]

Illiad?

[@johnny2145]

Ilirad

[@CH-rs7cm]

The break after ACT II was a bit too long. . .

[@ItalianGuy2357]

Intermission, gotta let the audience take a piss and get refills you know? (then again it doesnt really apply to an audiobook but you get my meaning).

[@journeyschaubhut8772]

51:14 mark (Act II)

[@journeyschaubhut8772]

1:28:09 act iii

[@whodat1967]

Thank you

[@diegomoreno5927]

Who made this? Do they have more ?

[@canman5060]

Yes.There is a 4 hr 2 disc DVD release for this performance.This is considered one of the best performance in the 20th century.

[@diegomoreno5927]

Lar M Who are the actors or the company?

[@koreanwannbeforever]

27:30

[@canvargun]

45:50 mark

[@tubror]

This is Branagh right?

[@joshthesquash123]

Yeah. Cast: The Renaissance Theatre Company: Paul Gregory (Bernardo), Alex Lowe (Francisco), Michael Williams (Horatio), Andrew Jarvis (Marcellus), Dereck Jacobi (Claudius), Shaun Prendergast (Voltemand), Mark Hadfield (Cornelius), James Wilby (Laertes), Richard Briers (Polonius), Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet), Judi Dench (Gertrude), Sophie Thompson (Ophelia), John Gielgud (ghost), Mark Hadfield (Reynaldo), Gerard Horan (Rosencrantz), Christopher Ravenscroft (Guildenstern). Performers: Music composed by Patrick Doyle ; music performed by Patrick Doyle and John Powell Directed by Kenneth Branagh and Glyn Dearman. Event notes: Recorded at the BBC Maida Vale Studios between January 5th and January 12th, 1992. First broadcast was on BBC Radio 3. -repost of jrpipik's comment

[@garundip.mcgrundy8311]

Was the "ghost" a devil or the king's impersonator?

[@quickchris10comcast]

I think it was the king.

[@bobbymarcum772]

Millennial wanders into play at five minutes into Act I: "Who's the bad guy?!?!"

[@not_zara]

1:40:19 dang 😳

[@lccoury]

Act IV: 2:25:40

[@OO-pi2tf]

[@blackmetalmagick1]

50:00

[@breezyandmore]

2:47:58

[@lccoury]

Act V: 3:07:30

[@valoutre]

Marque page : 3:08:01

[@heerimkang5458]

00:02:53

[@huntervalleyhinterlands]

33:53