HAMLET by William Shakespeare - FULL  

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I don't care whether they are male or female playing the parts...having different voices separates the characters, and reading along with this has totally helped me understand the play. Thanks for the audio book..and thank you also for the unedited version.

i hate the “i had to read this” comments. this story is too good for teachers to assign making people hate it smh. this is a story that should be discovered by people who actually want to read/watch it.

Procrastinated this book for 5 months then finished in total of 3 days. Shakespeares wit, philosophy and range is beyond me. To even make your characters have such philosophy means you have to have it yourself. His intellect is beyond comprehension. I didn't obviously comprehend all of the book lol but Hamlet is the best of characters with his insane wit, sarcasm, dry and dark humor, agony, rage and darkness. In love with this play. This is the first time I gave myself the push I needed to finally read Shakespeare. I have been wanting to, all my life. But God it's soo good. I am definitely listening to others soon. Though I don't think I will read them soon enough. My adhd wouldn't allow the boredom into my life. 😅

This was seriously helpful to have playing while I read the script, I struggle so much when reading Shakespeare and this was exactly what I needed to get through it.

Polonius’ voice is KILLING ME!! i cannot take him serious lmao 💀💀

This audio book helped me get through this book WHILE I followed along with the text and answered the questions. Honestly a godsend and MASSIVE time saver.

as a non-native english speaker understanding the book was a real challenge, so thanks for the audiobook it helped a little

The painting is called the "Gravedigger Scene", and the artist is Eugene Delacroix.

Soliloquies and stuff 18:41 S1 “sullied flesh” 44:10 S2 “while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe” 1:14:23 S3 “quintessence of dust” 1:27:51 [] “Hecuba” 1:34:57 S4 “to be or not to be” 2:03:25 S5 “tis now the very witching time” 2:08:52 S6 “Now might I do it pat now he is praying” 2:33:13 S7 “How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge”

I had to read this for homework. This audio helped me “read” the play and do my chores

Comments read by me 😂😁

Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 1: 01:57 - Elsinore. A platform before the castle. Act 1, Scene 2: 11:14 - A room of state in the castle. Act 1, Scene 3: 25:23 - A room in Polonius' house. Act 1, Scene 4: 33:11 - The platform. Act 1, Scene 5: 38:02 - Another part of the platform. Act 2, Scene 1: 49:48 - A room in POLONIUS' house. Act 2, Scene 2: 57:14 - A room in the castle. Act 3, Scene 1: 1:31:43 - A room in the castle. Act 3, Scene 2: 1:42:25 - A hall in the castle. Act 3, Scene 3: 2:04:04 - A room in the castle. Act 3, Scene 4: 2:10:25 - The Queen's closet. Act 4, Scene 1: 2:23:21 - A room in the castle. Act 4, Scene 2: 2:25:57 - Another room in the castle. Act 4, Scene 3: 2:27:26 - Another room in the castle. Act 4, Scene 4: 2:31:20 - A plain in Denmark. Act 4, Scene 5: 2:35:10 - Elsinore. A room in the castle. Act 4, Scene 6: 2:48:47 - Another room in the castle. Act 4, Scene 7: 2:50:36 - Another room in the castle. Act 5, Scene 1: 3:01:53 - A churchyard. Act 5, Scene 2: 3:18:35 - A hall in the castle. I tried to be as accurate as possible :)

Outstanding cast of readers. Mahalo for all of your continued efforts to keep literature alive.

So glad I found this. These audiobooks have been helpful for my Shakespeare class in college. Because of the language, it takes me longer to read an entire play. Thank you.

Listened to it for 9 minutes but couldn't able to understand what is happening 😳😳

I appreciated this audio recording. Spared some sanity in reading the play along with it. Polonius' voice was certainly memorable. It also took me some time to actually decide to look up why some lines were different from the lines in my book. Apparently there are at least three original versions of Hamlet. It rounded out the reading experience a bit. Great job to the voice actors.

Thanks, trying to read this was not working out for me. Listening to this and reading along worked great. Thanks.

Hamlet and Claudius are two of the greatest roles in the history of theatre! These two women wanted the chance to play these roles, and that is why they did. Arielle and Amy: Kudos to you!

Even after Polonius's death, we have to hear that voice because the actor takes on as Fortinbras

Bookmarks: Act 1 scene 2: 11:15 Act 1 scene 3: 25:29 Act 1 scene 4: 33:10 Act 2 scene 1: 49:50 Act 3 scene 1: 1:31:25 Act 4 scene 1: 2:23:20

I had to read this play for an assignment, was originally going to get the audiobook through audible, but did a RU-vid check before hand. This is word for word an exsact reading. Thank you, I had to get this complex read done in a time crunch! Thank you, saved time, money, and a grade!!

THANK YOU for this, please don't mind these ungrateful comments of clearly professional critiques, and to the girl who read Hamlet - you did great, and keep up the good job.

2:38:00 she is reaallllyyyyy a good singer. I love her voice.

this is EXACTLY what I need. I was using the BBC Shakespearian plays from the 70s and 80s to read with at first, but they cut parts out and you have to stop to find where they jumped to.

Really helpful!! It made my reading much easier. The woman playing Hamlet is awsome! People who complain should volunteer to recite Hamlet, or any other book. Volunteers always come in handy. ;)

I really enjoy listening to shakespeare, and hamlet is just such a great play!

Just from the “Gentleman~ Another Gentleman~” I’m already sold

I want to sleep really bad

not gonna lie, I had to read this in a pinch and using 1.25 and 1.5 speed came in clutch! Thanks again for the audio!

God bless His soul Where ever He is at.

16:27 “His father was a mudder, his mother was a mudder”

I’m in love with William Shakespeare’s playa, he was the all time popular writer of them all, I read Julius Caesar, then I’m going to be reading this now and I’m reading

This audio has truly saved my life.

Listening to this wonderful play to finish my higher education is a good thing ever thank you

In case anyone is bored! here is my essay of Hamlet! Any sort of replies would be great. The Trinity of Vengeance The great play of Hamlet is one that dwells in dualities and the complexities of life, as such Shakespeare is known for: the interchangeability of characters that represent sameness and yet two sides of a coin, such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern or the ambassadors, but also characters that are analogous and represent similarities in rank but of different dogmas of such as The Ghost and Claudius. Both are in fact kings and yet one is a valiant noble who quelled the Norwegians and the other is a colorless and empty kin-slaying satyr. This is only one elaboration of interchangeable characters and their relationships. A more prominent one is not of a duality but in fact a trinity of characters, or as one may call, The Trinity of Vengeance. Laertes, Hamlet, and Fortinbras each have quintessential roles as bearers of vengeance with different methodologies, but all share important aspects of their pursuits in life, the cruel deaths of their fathers and women. Firstly, is Laertes and his contemplations of the suicide of Ophelia, the death of Polonius, and his jurisdiction over his inheritance. As one can see in 4.5 Claudius already “defuses the situation [of inheritance] by responding to Laertes first with a gentle acknowledgement of his concern and then with a reassurance that he has nothing to fear” (Burton 37-38) securing the inheritance titles that must pass on to him. Though that is not the only purpose for Laertes arriving to Elsinore, the main objective and intent is to avenge his father. Though there is one thing that prevents him from engaging his father’s killer directly and that is Ophelia. To quickly digress we must understand the role women play within Hamlet. They are what keep and calm the characters and prevent them from acting upon their motives, the quote “Frailty thy name is women” reflects upon the fact that women shy men away from acting upon their motives. As we observe Laertes the one thing he does not truly carry out is his intent on avenging his father because Ophelia prevents him from doing such as we see her gesture with presenting him flowers also in 4.5 expressing herself of the strength of a womanhood’s opinion against the madness of men. Although this sanity is soon shattered by the suicide of Ophelia, and Laertes is befallen to madness, as it is portrayed by him leaping in to the grave of Ophelia: ”O, treble woe Fall ten times (treble) on that cursed head Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense Deprive of thee of!-Hold off the earth awhile, Till I have caught her once more in mine arms.” (5.1.258-262) This scene displays Laertes striving for his need of Ophelia to keep him at bay, away from the terrors of madness and yet the more he strives to hold onto his lost sister the more he envelops dissent to madness of which he redirects to Hamlet, the man he believes led to Ophelia’s suicide. This spurs him to regain his intent of vengeance of his father as he remembers the mad Hamlet was the one who killed him mixed with his belief that Hamlet’s madness had poisoned Ophelia into madness as well. This is represented with Laertes coming out of the grave, the innocent Ophelia’s grave, transforming into a mad man bent on killing Hamlet and screaming “The devil take thy soul” (5.1.272-273). This leads Laertes conspiring with Claudius to kill Hamlet. In due time the duel between the two ensue and we end up with a match that will be further elaborated upon in a later discussion. What ends up happening is Laertes and his begging for forgiveness from Hamlet as seen in 5.2. What can be described as to what happened in the fencing duel is Laertes releasing his rage and confusion of the world, everything he pondered the purpose of his existence and the corruption of the Danish Court, let alone the world, is being released. This can be mirrored as he strikes Hamlet with a poison tipped blade like a snake injecting poison on its prey, but instead of the literal poison it’s the rage and cruel hate upon the world being injected to Hamlet. Due to this act of inflicting Hamlet with his rage Laertes and does indeed forgives him as he has released his inner most tensions and understood he had conspired with a king-slayer. However, why does Hamlet also forgive him? Hamlet, the melancholy protagonist of this so called play of justice, is a very interesting and ambiguous character that can be seen in all sorts of lights and lenses, largely due to the fact that we can see every characters perspective on his actions and the thoughts of Hamlet in his own soliloquies which normally show Hamlet feigning and tugging himself between the art of dying and the concepts between life and death (Planinc 397-399). This should make him the most fleshed out characters, although it’s quite the opposite. Hamlet is mind boggling. Every sense of direction when thinking about him is simply turning one’s self into an abstract being in the fourth and a half dimension. Through the entire play, we cannot determine his sanity, just as Shakespeare wanted. This all takes place in the beginning when Hamlet tells Horatio that he will act mad, of course we never truly know whether or not he is mad (this however can be called an excuse to his actions of procrastination, slowing down his strive for vengeance). Although there is one thing we know, and that is his purpose for vengeance, one that is again similar to Fortinbras and Laertes, he must avenge his father who died a cruel death. To begin with Ophelia must be discussed about, as she is the link that connects Hamlet and Fortinbras and their struggle for madness. Before the events that destroy and dissent Hamlet from boring melancholy young lad to the erratic enlightened mad man that he becomes he is in love with Ophelia, this love represents the need that man has for women, women are protectors for men, they protect sanity, which is a reason why Hamlet almost completely losses his mind when Ophelia tries to give the letters back to him in 3.1, this is a representation of women rejecting man’s sanity, thus leading into madness. Though, Hamlet does not become fully mad, he still has one other women in his life, now this isn’t going to become some utterly far-out Freudian theory but in fact something more relatable than an Oedipus complex that scholars like to use. The bond between child and mother is something that only Hamlet has throughout the play as Laertes fails to have it and Fortinbras has no mention either, thus making Hamlet a more unique character. Aside from that, this also has an impact on the communications between both Laertes and Hamlet. As observed before, the death of Ophelia was the breaking point of Laertes causing him to dissent to madness whilst Hamlet is feigning between both madness and rationality, as commented by Polonius “Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t” (2.2.223-224). Yet of course this disparity between both madness and rationality is even heightened during the scene of Ophelia’s funeral and the confrontation between Hamlet and Laertes in which was already discussed, however I did not dwell into the mind of Hamlet during that scene. Hamlet was already pondering death and discussing it with a gravedigger in 5.1, and then he comes across the death of the one he loved, and comes face to face with Laertes, and there he claims to have loved her more, wedging deeper madness and resentment to each other. This leads to the duel, of which Hamlet and Laertes fight, two mad men who have lost their fathers in cruel deaths, lost a beautiful women in their lives, lost their sanity to the Danish Court, it is through this fight of vengeance, the clash of each other’s blades, the infliction of a single poison sword do they understand each other, the one serpent they both understand, the madness and insanity of the world. It is through this they appreciate each other and forgive each other. That is why Hamlet forgives Laertes, he realizes both of them had entered and insipid and terrible feud of the Danish Court, the emptiness and cruelty of their fathers who seek colorless desire, and lost the women that kept them sane. Though what about Fortinbras? Where does he fit in this madness, this Trinity of Vengeance? Fortinbras is a character that is almost never scene until the end of the play, but he looms over the rotting Danes, a character of ambiguity but embodies the stories act of vengeance. Frotinbras seeks revenge not in a single person, but an entire entity, the man he wished to kill was killed by a kin-slayer so he seeks revenge on the Danes itself. But what is his motive to conquer the Danes? It goes back to 2.2 when he asks for arms against Denmark from Old Norway, and he is granted this and is allowed passage into Denmark to fight the Poles (Planinc 60-71). As one can observe he does this in the name of vengeance for his father, the last king of Norway who died at the hands of Old Hamlet, who was again killed by Claudius, thus leaving Fortinbras to direct his vengeance upon the Danes as a whole. This is what makes Fortinbras different from Laertes and Hamlet in respect to their quests for vengeance, the fact that throughout he acts rationally and decisive keeping a cool mind, this is perhaps due to the fact that no women he loved has been ended thus retains his sanity. From what the play presents of Fortinbras, he has a motive a clear one, he has a plan and he carries it out, and without even interacting with Hamlet he sympathizes with him and orders for his story to be told just as he says “Speak loudly for him” (5.2.446) but for what? Easy question, they shared the same fight for vengeance. Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras, three individuals who had been marked with a lust for vengeance and yet each acted upon it differently. From Laertes who fought swiftly but irrationally to Hamlet who fought rationally but slowly and to Fortinbras who fought both swiftly and rationally. This can also be displayed as another characteristic of women as they seemed to have either slowed down each character, showing the procrastination and prevention of carrying out the horrific cycle of revenge, for example, Hamlet having two women and being the slowest to carry out his revenge, Laertes being twice as fast as Hamlet in carrying out his vengeance, being as he only lost Ophelia, and then Fortinbras who had apparently no women to hold him back from carrying out his vengeance. Of course though perhaps women also provided them with morality, as Hamlet sought the least bloody path, Laertes wanted nothing but to kill Hamlet, and Fortinbras who led an army to kill a king. In the end, they were three interchangeable characters in a play of life, with colorful curtains but a dull, insipid, stage full of nothing but colorless greed and ambiguity, with only the quickest to come out as superior. Yet in the end, it was all for nothing, each one of the characters died chasing after pointless desires for revenge for fathers who were never there for them, even Fortinbras will die one day, and conquering the Danes will have been for nothing but empty revenge. For that is the story of Hamlet, the story of vengeance, the story of death, and the story of nothing.

Hamlet sounds like Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender.

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I loved it I just started and I like it already

Thanks William Shakespeare

martin geeson's one of my favourite readers always nice to hear him

2:59:26 - SPOILER it's my favourite part of the whole play, i don't know... something about the muddy death of Ophelia is just so uncanny and thrilling but also so poethic in a sense that my words cannot bare.

Thank you so much for this. It made it so much easier!

this was very help full for my 9th grade lit. class thanks for sharing

First of all, this is a big help in reading along with the audio. Second of all Hamlet's voice is really pretty. It's so clear and bright.

Interesting fact: my intro to Shakespeare teacher told me the way that Hamlet wants to see Ophelia without realizing she's dead by sayin he can't wait to see her with "makeup inches thick" Was a reference to how drowned victims were prepared for funeral services back in that era due to the discoloration in their skin

The voice acting is really good but the recording quality is poor and inconsistent between characters.

very glad that there are time stamps they make things more easier

Polonius sounds like grand-maester Pycell from Game of Thrones lol.

I lovely read!! Thank you for your performance!!!

Something is always wrong with the voices in dubbed animes...

Thanks for helping me get through this.

This audiobook is so good

NOTHING ELSE STIMULATES THE MIND LIKE THE BRILLIANT WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE

The classwork: one fish two fish, red fish blue fish The study guide: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog The test:

Thank You♥

Best story ever told...

Love r.g. pagg's voice it's always so soothing

Thank you very much for the audio book

My favourite play from Shakespeare.

I literally roll my eyes every time Polonius talks…sir, please clear your throat.

Ty for uploading this

i am really about to listen to hamlet voluntarily as a thirteen year old.

Thank You.

This is honestly really great, I don't get why everyone's complaining

49:22 Act 2 1:31:17 Act 3 2:23:08 Act 4 3:01:26 Act 5

I like it verry much because i want improve my english.thanks.

GREAT voice actor/character introductions 🤩 the tonal diversity of voices will make this easier to follow! Thank you - Will Shakes 4 ever, verily 📖

1:34:55 that's wonderful!

This ws very helpful thank you

This helped a ton Had to read the entirety of hamlet for college and like an idiot I put it off until yesterday Had to rush through it but this just saved my grade Thanks

As a Brit, I'm not sure that some of the more squeaky American female voices, à la Lina Lamont of Singin' In The Rain, are quite right for reading Shakespeare.

I like The Classic Tales version a lot more! Make a video of that man!

This sounds less complicated than I expected

0o0 this is amazing thank youu

My favorite things About William Shakespeare Is that brings me Nostalgia from my Childhood.

So many mean comments about the reciting. These people are not actors, they're volunteers. If u want a better version, fucking pay for it and stop complaining.

Thank you

Brutal acting y'all

I have a slight hearing problem, I couldn't tell the voices apart at all

I like it very beautiful

Sounds a conference call between Alexa, Siri, Johnny 5 and friends.

1:31:17 Act 3

Dreams are a gateway to the mind

Cant believe I just heard all of Hamlet.

bruh i don't care about the genders of who's reading whose part. I just wanna finish reading this for my school assignment.

Only BBC narrators can do this justice.

Polonius's voice makes my skin crawl, he talks as if drunk and on the verge of death.

I guess I'm just gonna be a writer since nobody wants to hire me 😂. My mind is made

Hamlet sounds like Azula from the Last Airbender ahhh how nostalgic

i feel like i don‘t understand english anymore. i‘m a foreign speaker having to read this in my next school year. it sounds like gibberish in my ears and i‘m honestly panicking right now. What are all of these new words?

The female king and Hamlet are really throwing me off XD

nice work

Easer than reading it but still pretty ruff I wonder if there's an audio for the more now a day English copy

Thank you from sudan❤

The greatest monologue of all time: To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come . When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.--Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd.

I will just read my book of the full writing.

While I like the concept of using different voices, any voices, for the different roles, the audio quality here varies too much between the different voices. That alone makes it difficult for me to listen to. I suppose their lines were all recorded separately? That was a mistake, I think.

this is very helpful because I do not know how to read. Or writre.

2:22:51 act 4