Other user reviews here point out that the text of the play would have Claudius much more repellent than the young, sexy Patrick Stewart plays him. Two years younger, in real life, than Jacobi, his 'nephew'! But I found Stewart's Claudius to be fascinatingly convincing -- a worthy villain. After all, how did he manage to seduce Gertrude if he was the sneaky, ugly troll that Hamlet thinks him to be!
Every English-speaker in the world should see this imperishable masterpiece. And if you aren't quite fluent in Elizabethan, what a help the closed captioning is!
Every English-speaker in the world should see this imperishable masterpiece. And if you aren't quite fluent in Elizabethan, what a help the closed captioning is!