Hamlet
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Hamlet
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Frank Muller
In this unusual recording, the talented actor Frank Muller reads Shakespeare's complete work with all stage directions, in the tradition of actors/managers/authors auditioning plays for their companies. Muller's interpretation allows us to listen directly to the author's voice, without extraneous distractions. He brings to life the story of Hamlet, the complex tragic hero bent on avenging his father's murder yet racked by uncertainty brought on by the strength and eloquence of his own conscience.
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To pause or not to pause isn't even a question with this production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The award-winning actor Frank Muller takes on the task of performing one of the most compelling and influential plays in English literature, and in this unique production, Muller reads the complete text, stage directions and all. This peculiar style gives listeners a rare chance to hear the author's intent right next to the drama of the tragic hero Hamlet, as he attempts to avenge his father. There are few plays that have achieved the fame of Hamlet, and this production does well to continue its rich legacy.
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This is also my first exposure to the play since visiting Hamlet's castle in Denmark last summer (2016) on the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death. While we were walking through it, they were doing a "Hamlet Live" at Kronborg Castle and the Hamlet flirted with my daughter. It was definitely worth the time and the blustery weather. I saw cannons and tapestries, but alas no ghosts or floating virgins. Sad!
I also learned THIS summer while I was in Malta, reading about Samuel Taylor Coleridge, that it was Coleridge who largely propelled Hamlet to the top of Shakepeare's heap. According to Jonathan Bate, "the Romantics' reinvention of Hamlet as a paralyzed Romantic was their single most influential critical act." It seemed popluar among Romantics, after Coleridge, to show a strong antic disposition for Shakespeare's psychologically complex, young Prince.
- "We love Hamlet even as we love ourselves." - Lord Byron
- "Hamlet's heart was full of such Misery as mine is when he said to Ophelia 'Go to a Nunnery, go, go!' Indeed I should like to give up the matter at once -- I should like to die. I am sickened at the brute world which you are smiling with." - John Keats
- "I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so...." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Favorite Lines this read:
“O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.” (Act 2, Scene 2)
“Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words.” (Act 2, Scene 2)
“Our wills and fates do so contrary run.” (Act 3, Scene 2)
“For some must watch, while some must sleep
So runs the world away” (Act 3, Scene 2)
“If your mind dislike anything obey it” (Act 5, Scene 2)
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go
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great reading by Frank muller
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Great and Very Comprehensive
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