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Recommend me a production of Hamlet that I can watch online. I don't mind paying.

My only particular request is that the staging not be contemporary; I don't want to watch Hamlet and Horatio, both wearing t-shirts, hanging out in a Denny's

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17349628

>>17349616
>Reading theatre instead of watching it

>> No.17349630

>>17349616
What is wrong with Denny's?

>> No.17349646

>>17349630
I just don't want to see a revisionist version of Hamlet the first time around. Give me something where Hamlet is played by a man, most of the cast are white, and they don't try to be hip by turning the swords into Glocks or lightsabers. That's what I want for my first viewing of the play.

>> No.17349659

>>17349646
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq5HKX1vicM
And what is wrong with OP picture? video related

>> No.17349665

>>17349659
Is that a production you'd recommend?

>> No.17349668

>>17349616

How about a nice BBC live recording?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbdcD5SAD7Q

>Make sure to watch Peter Brooks' excellent Lear adaptation from 1971 while you're at it. Available on yt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff0vFSXlGzs

>> No.17349676

I believe Christopher Plummer's version in Elsinore is on YouTube.

>> No.17349686

>>17349665
I watched Caesar and Cleopatra and it was cool, but never watched Macbeth.

>> No.17349694

>>17349665
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5slmVEHtSk
there is this Benedict Cumberbatch version. Seems quite recent and has subs, the audio doesn't seem that great.

>> No.17349698

>>17349665
It's very good imo, if only because the sound mixing isn't god awful like most recordings of plays are and the costumes/lighting/stage design are high quality. The biggest negatives are their American accents, which usually render Shakespeare unlistenable, but the other aspects are good enough that they make up for it.

>> No.17349715

Any thoughts on the 1980 BBC version starring Derek Jacobi?

>> No.17349716

>>17349694
This is a nice production. I don't mind the victorian/1930s costumes. Makes me miss the theater.

>> No.17349732

>>17349616
not sure how available it is, but kenneth branaugh's hamlet is stellar. also like 4+ hours long. worth every minute.

kate winslet's tits make yet another appearance

>> No.17349742

>>17349732
I intend to watch that, though I really want to start off with a filmed stage version. Thanks for the recommendation.

>> No.17349775

>>17349694
>Horatio is a hipster with tattoos, flannel and black rimmed glasses
......

>> No.17349789

>>17349775
I never watched it, but what is the difference? Theater is all about imagination anyway.

>> No.17349803

>>17349742
Warty dicko

>> No.17349811

>>17349616
Download Archangel Shakespeare (available as torrent)
It's only audio, though.

>> No.17349818

Kenneth Branagh likes Shakespeare more than you so I would watch his 4-hour film adaptation that is the whole script verbatim

>> No.17349968

To what extent was Hamlet's madness real or feigned?

>> No.17350006

>>17349968
I think Hamlet was genuinely mental even if he had moments of lucidity. He was the only one that heard the ghost speak, consistently treated Ophelia like shit even though she had genuine affection for him, even though the ghost told him to be nice to his mother he still confronts her because he's pissed etc.

>> No.17350746

>>17349659
AAAAAH THE AMERICAN ACCENTS I CAN'T WATCH THIS

>> No.17352184

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXwb_eMe8Tg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZUPSi_LfNU