Paul Scofield's Hamlet: To Be or Not To Be

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  • @phwbooth
    @phwbooth 3 роки тому +18

    Paul Scofield, one of the greatest actors of the twentieth century, refused a knighthood three times. That's quality....

  • @MagistraMom1
    @MagistraMom1 10 років тому +20

    Thank you so much. Paul Scofield had the best voice for all characters, audiobooks, and seasons. I'd give most anything to have had the privilege of seeing him on stage.

    •  7 років тому

      Join the club

    • @domainofthesun4400
      @domainofthesun4400 6 років тому +1

      You and me both.

    • @dianas-v8418
      @dianas-v8418 6 років тому +5

      I saw Scofield onstage as Lear. I remember his posture, the timbre of his voice. Nothing in my theater-going life has equaled that performance.

    • @Amethyst_Friend
      @Amethyst_Friend 2 роки тому

      Have you listened to his reading of 'Great Expectations'?

  • @AltenburgEagles
    @AltenburgEagles 5 років тому +9

    What sincerity...what humanity. He was one of the few true greats!

  • @Pugovitsa46
    @Pugovitsa46 7 років тому +25

    And by all accounts Paul Scofield was a good and decent man.

  • @michaeldoyle6702
    @michaeldoyle6702 10 років тому +23

    Genius, in Shakespeare and Scofield.
    Ought not this be spoken from one depressed, exhausted, hoping for a possible
    escape? The audible nervous breaths of Scofield take me in to this man's awful struggle. Brilliant. Thanks J.F.

  • @elizari3
    @elizari3 2 роки тому +4

    Fantastic in his vulnerability yet flacidly brilliant at desperation’s corner

  • @alexkatsanos8475
    @alexkatsanos8475 11 місяців тому +1

    Wow. The trembling in every syllable the torment. So evident. I’ve heard it rushed through too many times. One of the greatest but not known by many.

  • @edoardocippitelli4158
    @edoardocippitelli4158 6 років тому +11

    Thank you for very much indeed for honouring him and thus delighting us so.

  • @markthomas3851
    @markthomas3851 Рік тому +2

    What a beautiful man.

  • @garrison968
    @garrison968 9 років тому +17

    Beautifully done. Quiet, but his voice is so well modulated at all times that you get a really broad range of expression and phrasing and timbre. Scofield is the only man i know who could match Gielgud in this role in English.

  • @RonRicho
    @RonRicho 10 років тому +8

    Thanks for posting this. I was fortunate enough to see Mr Scofield in Heartbreak House in London. Need I say he was magnificent.

    • @anyasmith3114
      @anyasmith3114 6 років тому +5

      Lucky fellow! It must have been the performance of a lifetime.

    •  5 років тому

      I am jealous

    • @millertheory7935
      @millertheory7935 3 роки тому +2

      Pretty cool

    • @RonRicho
      @RonRicho 3 роки тому +2

      @@anyasmith3114 It was! Also in the cast Vanessa Redgrave and Felicity Kendal and directed by Trevor Nunn.

  • @pandulagodawatta7398
    @pandulagodawatta7398 Рік тому +1

    Amazing! His Hamlet is much more inward looking and contemplative? Brilliant how he infuse a touch of cynicism to the first part of the soliloquy.

  • @lunarmodule9915
    @lunarmodule9915 7 років тому +9

    God gifted this man with the greatest voice I've ever heard.

  • @kawippel8256
    @kawippel8256 5 років тому +3

    I can listen to him all day.

  • @bonnieduke557
    @bonnieduke557 8 років тому +4

    Yes...Mesmerizing! Yes...Thank you

  • @mizofan
    @mizofan 8 років тому +5

    Oh yes, superb.

  • @somethingyousaid5059
    @somethingyousaid5059 4 роки тому +1

    Not to be. That's the answer to the question. At least as far as I'm concerned.

  • @dbeans63
    @dbeans63 Рік тому

    Sir Laurence Olivier said that Paul scofield and himself held a mutual respect for each others work.

  • @Eudora74
    @Eudora74 11 років тому +4

    Thank you very, very much!!!

  • @Dizinii
    @Dizinii 9 років тому +6

    It's still powerful

  • @Jon1Flanders
    @Jon1Flanders  11 років тому +3

    I believe it is actually. I have it on tape, transferred it to dvd and mp3.

  • @katievince7085
    @katievince7085 4 роки тому +1

    What a powerful performance.

  • @christopherthorkon3997
    @christopherthorkon3997 4 роки тому +3

    Extraordinary.

  • @johnheart6890
    @johnheart6890 Рік тому

    One of the best!

  • @scottcrosby-art5490
    @scottcrosby-art5490 6 років тому +2

    One of the greatest ever to do it

  • @finch45lear
    @finch45lear Рік тому

    He wonderful in ‘ A Man For All Seasons’.

  • @_rob_.
    @_rob_. 5 років тому +1

    Thank you. 🤝

  • @boabswife9285
    @boabswife9285 7 років тому +4

    Soft, yet powerful. Confidently performed but Hamlet's frustration clear. Scofield had genius running through him like Blackpool rock. One of the greatest actors ever to tread the boards, but where was his knighthood?

    • @Jon1Flanders
      @Jon1Flanders  7 років тому +4

      He refused it.

    • @boabswife9285
      @boabswife9285 7 років тому +4

      Thanks Jonathan. Good to know he was deemed worthy by the establishment. 😀

  • @modernisti
    @modernisti 11 років тому +3

    thank you, thank you! This isn't from the 1965 recording....? (That one I own).

  • @Yoni123
    @Yoni123 2 роки тому

    Where is this from? Radio play or what?

  • @MarlboroughBlenheim1
    @MarlboroughBlenheim1 6 років тому +2

    Too much focus on Schofield and his fine oration: not enough in the comments on the genius of the language and the beauty of it.

  • @forgogeorge9806
    @forgogeorge9806 Рік тому

    Very good indeed ! But to me Gilgud was still irreplaceable to Hamlet nobody comes close to Gilgud ever maybe today Kenneth Branagh with His acting can get close to this piece!

  • @edoardocippitelli4158
    @edoardocippitelli4158 6 років тому +5

    Thank you for very much indeed for honouring him and thus delighting us so.

    • @BuckyBrown-lt4ry
      @BuckyBrown-lt4ry 6 років тому

      Horrible reading. I'm very much surprised. He was a great actor - but not this time. Far better than Richard B - Liz's sex toy.