braveryofsfNew here. Like it already. Shakespeare nerd and getting interested in astro-photography.
#Shakespeare #astronomy
#Shakespeare #astronomy
LynnBrenner@braveryofsf Welcome Shakespeare nerd!
Yusuf Toropov@LynnBrenner @braveryofsf Shakespeare nerds are who I want to follow!
<<blows summoning conch shell>>
Here is a clip to welcome all the #Shakespeare nerds on #mastodon: 60 astonishing seconds of #MarkRylance as #Hamlet
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxUG5-Qur4C16bCI8yFe_UNVU9GEWM3b3Z
✂️ Rylance
60 seconds · Clipped by Yusuf Toropov · Original video "Hamlet Documentary (1989) Mark Rylance, Melvyn Bragg, Barrymore, Jonathan Price" by cowsill2x2
@YusufToropov @braveryofsf Thank you for posting that clip!!! I look forward to watching the whole thing later today.
Meanwhile, is it my imagination, or does the young Rylance in the clip look just a little bit like the young Albert Finney?
And a question for Shakespeare nerds: who played Hamlet in the first production you saw? #Shakespeare, #Hamlet
@LynnBrenner @braveryofsf He definitely does!
@LynnBrenner @braveryofsf I am pretty sure the first one I saw from beginning to end was Olivier's 1948 film, which I saw in college in the '80s. I thought a lot more of it then than I do now, but it is still a landmark performance/production
@YusufToropov @braveryofsf #Shakespeare on film is a mismatch of media, very hard to do well: We go 'to see' a movie. Elizabethans went 'to hear' a play.
Best Shakespeare on film I've ever seen: Kenneth Branagh's 'Henry V'. (And he snuck in a little 'Henry IV' to provide some backstory.)
Best recent Hamlet I've seen onstage: Oscar Isaac at The Public Theater, 2017. I had many reservations about Sam Gold's production, but Isaac's performance was marvelous! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/theater/hamlet-review-oscar-isaac-public-theater.html
@LynnBrenner @braveryofsf sounds amazing. I'm sorry I missed that.
Agree with you on #Branagh's Henry V. I would put his #Hamlet a notch above, but I know I'm probably in a minority there.
Bullseye on the audience coming to hear a play back then. This is one of the reasons that #Shakespeare works so very well on radio in my view.
Come to think of it I don't think I've ever seen a live Hamlet
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