I read Shakespeare during my teenage years. I didn't really understand much but I enjoyed reading them so much. Now, in my thirties, watching your video while looking at the lines you had posted along with it, I understand. And, they are beautiful. Thank you.
Beautifully done .. the ethereal voice of Tom Hiddleston is what dreams are made of .. his beautiful voice transports you there .. where he is .. listening in awe .. Tom is eloquent and emotional as he speaks .. and hearing him ., you wish only that you could listen forever .. And this man is way beyond beautiful ❣ Jen999💙
Just read it and listen to it at the same 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 wished. To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, 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 dispised 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, [F: these Fardels] To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered 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 pitch and moment, [F: pith] With this regard their Currents turn awry, [F: away] And lose the name of Action.
Thank you as I remember one of the most beautiful teachers I had in hs decades ago. He never saw me but many or all of us saw him. Thank you, Mr. Culver, for all that you offered Puyallup 💜
Absolutely. Perfection. His interpretation is soo insightful and poignant. His spirit and soul are wrought open by the death of his father. Magnificent just magnificent
It cannot compare with the Ancient Egyptian Dispute of a Man with His Soul. ‘Death is in my sight today, like a man’s longing to see home after he has spent many years in captivity’.
Just one question: Could someone please explain this speech in length to me? As in College level analises please? I understand what it's about. Would just like to hear others analises on this. Thank you.
He is contemplating suicide. He feels despondent at the shallowness of people, the court etc. live is meaningless. Despairing at the speed of his mother remarriage to his uncle and how quickly she seems to forgot the memory of his father. So basically life has few attractions for him. BUT the uncertainty of death, what does it hold? What terrors abide there in that ‘ uncertain country.’ And so he concludes it’s better staying with those you know than to go into an unknown world. Phew. Hope that’s of some help.
Tom Hiddleston read Philip Larkin's The Mower to me (just JUST me) via this UA-cam. A Hedgehog's misfortune when unobserved is slain by well someone presumably mowing (sic) grass. The poem ends thus Killed. It had been in the long grass. I had seen it before, and even fed it, once. Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world Unmendably. Burial was no help: Next morning I got up and it did not. The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should be careful Of each other, we should be kind While there is still time.
Sorry, this is not very good. Yes he has a nice voice, but it sounds like he’s just reading it off a page. In the play Hamlet is contemplating suicide during this soliloquy. Check out David Tennant’s version. He’s someone who can actually act.
@@Ben-pd2bx he puts his everything into his Shakespeare performances; you can see clearly his passion and wonderment for the playwright’s work, so I personally disagree with you
More than suicide, I think Hamlet's conflicted about the ethics and morality behind seeking revenge (and his possible death) or doing nothing about it. He ponders the fear of the unknown after dying or the miserable life he'd continue having by his inaction. It all comes down to consequences.
remarkably awful and quite surprising so, isn't it? He can do better. Here is his Henry V ua-cam.com/video/S-rryLI4vpA/v-deo.html but this here, this Hamlet, shockingly flat Here is how you do it. Branagh ua-cam.com/video/SjuZq-8PUw0/v-deo.html
Tom Hiddleston was born to speak Shakespeare’s words. Just a magic combination.
@@Ben-pd2bx Shakespeare's english sounded completely different.
Or, was Shakespeare born to write words for Tom???
Tom is one out of a thousand Shakespeare students who managed to become popular against all odds.
No cuz that's my dream too 😂
Only Shakespeare can make poetry of a man deciding whether or not to commit suicide and only Tom can execute it so beautifully. #tomhiddleston
Never too late to appreciate Shakespeare once again. Thanks Tom.
His voice is weirdly magical and comfortable😇
I will not be surprised if someday we discover that Shakespeare has reborn as Tom Hiddleston.
Tom's voice is angelic.
You had me at "to be or not to be"
His voice is heaven
this man is capable of making even shakespeare sound hot.
One of my dearest British actors reciting my favorite Shakespearean play? This might just be the peak of my anglophilic existence ❤🇬🇧
Shakespeare & Tom are synonyms of each other.....his voice beyond words....the magic it creates....omggggggg
Take a look at Only Lovers Left Alive, by J. Jarmush... It's an other masterpiece that may interest you as well ! ;)
Tom hae a lovely voice for reading poetry, soft yet dramatic ive always admired his diction and pacing 👏👏👏
He could make a mash potato recipe sound fascinating
I read Shakespeare during my teenage years. I didn't really understand much but I enjoyed reading them so much. Now, in my thirties, watching your video while looking at the lines you had posted along with it, I understand. And, they are beautiful. Thank you.
Same. I majored in English but didn’t necessarily love Shakespeare. I’m coming around to it...
would it be creepy if I say, "I just want to listen to him read Shakespeare as I comb my fingers through his hair?"
Not At All!! Very understandable.
Nope, totally get that. Or lie my head in his lap as he ran his fingers through my hair
@@faithblack7921 whose fingers ?
Absolutely feel you. I would literally give my first born to do just that😆
I want that too
He had me when he just started talking.
Beautifully done .. the ethereal voice of Tom Hiddleston is what dreams are made of .. his beautiful voice transports you there .. where he is .. listening in awe ..
Tom is eloquent and emotional as he speaks .. and hearing him ., you wish only that you could listen forever ..
And this man is way beyond beautiful ❣
Jen999💙
What If Season 2's Loki Variant brought me here!
same!!
I could listen to him for hours on end and still it wouldn’t be enough ❤❤❤
So calming. My troubled soul has been healed
What a glorious voice!! I can imagine Shakespeare himself requesting his works be read only by Tom Hiddleston...
Absolutely 👍
After Laurence Olivier of course? Nobody does it better than his lordship. Beautiful both in voice and diction
I don't understand anything (bc native language isn't English) but his voice makes it magical and that's all I need! ♡
Just read it and listen to it at the same 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 wished. To die, to sleep,
To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, 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 dispised 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, [F: these Fardels]
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered 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 pitch and moment, [F: pith]
With this regard their Currents turn awry, [F: away]
And lose the name of Action.
@@sbnwnc I love you
The man could be teaching me math! And I would love it!!
You're welcome 😊
ua-cam.com/video/EdDqhn43ZYQ/v-deo.html
💚
But he himself said that he is bad at maths.
AAAAA HE READ THIS SOLILOQUY IN WHAT IF S2
It sounds good, but it’s lovely to be able to see it too.
Perfection. This question is soo valuable to me.. and the way he reads it helps me connect even deeper to the text
My favourite Shakespeare soliloquy recited by one of my favourite actors? I'll take 10 please.
The way your voice executed this was beautiful🖤
I used this video and others for sleeping.
Thanks Tom, you helped me :D
Thank you as I remember one of the most beautiful teachers I had in hs decades ago. He never saw me but many or all of us saw him. Thank you, Mr. Culver, for all that you offered Puyallup 💜
The best, I ever heard.
Such a beautiful voice.
this has gotta be the best thing on youtube
Can he just make an audiobook of Hamlet and all shekspeare pls
Pleaseeeee😭😭
I like the pause and "... end them" clearly enunciated. The Sir Laurence Olivier way and undoubtedly the way that William intended
Absolutely. Perfection. His interpretation is soo insightful and poignant. His spirit and soul are wrought open by the death of his father. Magnificent just magnificent
Oh,my God, my love...
about to go feral
Perfect!
"To be, "! OF COURSE! 👍
fantastic
Mmmmmmm ima sleep well tonight.
"For-tiune"
Magic. Conscience does make cowards of us all
Where was this during the leaving cert in 6th year?! I could listen to this morning noon and night
Only got half a day to memorize this shit fucking hate my life
Me asffff
hahahahahah
Excellent read 💯 ❤😊
Alright, he makes me hate shakespeare a little bit less.
It cannot compare with the Ancient Egyptian Dispute of a Man with His Soul. ‘Death is in my sight today, like a man’s longing to see home after he has spent many years in captivity’.
I love sleeping you do not think of any thing all problems gone xx but lovely dream .
Ser ou não ser?? Eis a questão
Wow
Hmmm, nice
0:07
Amore mio
❤❤❤
To be?or not to be¿ The answer is IAM 🙏😇
Heartbreaking.
This is just dictation, his performance in What If was brilliant
This is not about suicide. This is about “taking arms against a sea of troubles,” even at the risk of death.
No its about being to scaree to commit sucide because of PTSD dreams
Just one question: Could someone please explain this speech in length to me? As in College level analises please? I understand what it's about. Would just like to hear others analises on this. Thank you.
Life sucks and we're all going to die, mother nature is a bitch for giving us a conscious awareness of our own mortality
He is contemplating suicide. He feels despondent at the shallowness of people, the court etc. live is meaningless. Despairing at the speed of his mother remarriage to his uncle and how quickly she seems to forgot the memory of his father. So basically life has few attractions for him. BUT the uncertainty of death, what does it hold? What terrors abide there in that ‘ uncertain country.’ And so he concludes it’s better staying with those you know than to go into an unknown world. Phew. Hope that’s of some help.
Hamlet doesn’t hold yorvik during this soliloquy
Tom Hiddleston read Philip Larkin's The Mower to me (just JUST me) via this UA-cam.
A Hedgehog's misfortune when unobserved is slain by well someone presumably mowing (sic) grass.
The poem ends thus
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:
Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
What's he talking about? The longer I listen the more convinced I become he doesn't know either.
What the f... Yorick's scull is doing here? There' no such a scene in Hamlet's soliloquy!
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a few words when modernised ... make sense 😘❤️
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Sorry, this is not very good. Yes he has a nice voice, but it sounds like he’s just reading it off a page. In the play Hamlet is contemplating suicide during this soliloquy. Check out David Tennant’s version. He’s someone who can actually act.
Well, the name of the video itself says Tom was reading it, not acting.
@@Ben-pd2bx Have you seen his Coriolanus ?
@@Ben-pd2bx he puts his everything into his Shakespeare performances; you can see clearly his passion and wonderment for the playwright’s work, so I personally disagree with you
@@Ben-pd2bx Could not disagree more. But hey at least you got to feel smug on the Internet.
@@Ben-pd2bx Lol so go feel bad, dude. Have fun with that.
So.... this is a man contemplating suicide? Methinks not my leige...
More than suicide, I think Hamlet's conflicted about the ethics and morality behind seeking revenge (and his possible death) or doing nothing about it. He ponders the fear of the unknown after dying or the miserable life he'd continue having by his inaction. It all comes down to consequences.
Flat. No inner life.
Also awful. Just awful.
remarkably awful and quite surprising so, isn't it? He can do better.
Here is his Henry V ua-cam.com/video/S-rryLI4vpA/v-deo.html
but this here, this Hamlet, shockingly flat
Here is how you do it. Branagh ua-cam.com/video/SjuZq-8PUw0/v-deo.html
*pith