Poetry Cafe 162: To Be or Not To Be (Hamlet)

‘To be,…’ (Hamlet)

Playlist (texts read, music played, references):

1. Hamlet, III/ 1 (‘To be, …’) ll. 1-5, with John Gielgud

2. Hamlet, III/ 1 (‘To be, …’) ll. 1-5, with John Gielgud (later recording)

3. Susan Sontag: ‘Against Interpretation’

4. Greensleeves , Lute solo: Dorothy Linell

5. Worksheets on the play: from a.milneskinner@gmail.com

6. Callino (anon.), Lute solo Dorothy Linell

7. ‘To live or, not to live’ from Clive Duncan’s adaptation of ‘Hamlet’ for Vienna’s English Theatre

8. John Dowland: Prélude et Galliarde, Lute solo: Robert Spencer

9. ‘To be, …’, with Michael Sheen

10. Laurence Olivier on ‘Hamlet’

11. ‘To be, …’, with Laurence Olivier

12. ‘To be,…’, with Ronald Pickup

13. ‘To be, …’, with Ian Bannen

14. ‘To be,…’, with Kenneth Branagh

15. ‘To be, … ‘, with Derek Jacobi

16. John Dowland: ‘Flow my tears’, Steven Rickards (counter-tenor), Dorothy Linell (lute)

17. Tiroler Tageszeitung: ‘Hamlet und Co. rocken das Haus’

18. Dmitry Shostakovich: Hamlet – Hamlet’s Monologue (‘To be, …’(Music for the 1964 Film), Russian Philharmonic under Dmitry Yablonsky

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