Hamlet has just used the players to trick the king into showing guilt for the murder of Hamlet's father. Rosencrantz and Gildenstern come to deliver a message from Hamlet's mother. Hamlet and Horatio are great at Hot Cross Buns.
Tennant sold this performance for me. His acting capacities portrayed Hamlet as he was written: a man in mourning pretending to be insane. Most actors who portray Hamlet do so with far too much solemnity. Tennant puts the humanity and insanity back into the character!
love this :) i always get happy when producers aren’t afraid to showcase how close hamlet and horatio really were. they were absolute best friends and it makes me a little sad when we don’t see that often in other productions of hamlet
@@cinematicadventures1 I was joking as well. I think David Tennant is an excellent Hamlet here, the best I have seen for sure - but Shakespeare did give him some really good lines 😊
Leaving aside the acting, and it's very, very good, I've always been struck by the absolute genius of the writing here. Shakespeare isn't on that pedestal for nothing...
My favourite part! Love this so much! :) 'VERY LIKE A WHALE!!' XD It's just funny when Hamlet says 'I do beseech you!'. When I first saw this on TV I was in fits of giggles and then he attacked Guildenstern and I jumped so badly...
David Tennants inflections and performance is absolutely amazing! I am understanding why some say Shakespeare’s work was meant to be performed and not read.
What i love most about Hamlet is that when he's being crazy, the actor portraying him can play it however he wants. This was my intro to Shakespeare and i will never not love Tennants amazing performance
It's one of my favourite scenes in the whole play. Leaving aside this particular performance, it's just an amazing piece of writing - the whole play is really. As for this performance, it really is excellent, the best Hamlet I have seen.
What a brilliant scene! Thank you so much for posting (from the US). You don't happen to have the rest of the show do you? I have been dying to see it.
@darkraven6966 It IS the Doctor... he merely takes on the persona of David Tennant so we don't know (I shouldn't be telling you this) ... he Loooves Shakespeare. Before he met Donna the second time, he went forward in time to play Shakespeare's Hamlet.... ;)
It was cut - Hamlet is so long that your chances of seeing the full text (i.e. the one in the First Folio) performed in a theatre are practically zero.
I think the scene could have been stronger if Rosencrantz & Guildernstern & Polonius were allowed to be strong - instead of just making them stooges for Hamlet's jokes, that he can do & say anything he wants. It becomes tiresome.
While I don't disagree that the comedy in this part isn't very funny, this scene does follow the text. I was checking the text as they went along cause I read your comment and thought "that's not the way I remember it" but it's the full Shakespeare.
Shakespeare didn't write Rosencrantz & Guildenstern as strong characters - they are ineffectual and pretty much their sole function, outside of the plot, is to be the butt of Hamlet's jokes. You can't blame the director or actors for this, it's Shakespeare's fault.
David Tennant ladies I am so confused I've heard the song Counting Stars but I'm more like counting confusion you have me confused what are Dell what are you saying you are not making any sense not even if you were playing Darkwing Duck would you be making any sense why I do not understand Shakespeare
