#Hamlet Speech

9 years ago today marked the first time Andrew Scott delivered this iconic speech on our stage, in Robert Icke’s Hamlet. After a ★★★★★ sold-out run at the Almeida in 2017, the production transferred to the West End, before travelling to New York in 2022 with Alex Lawther in the title role. 💀 #AlmeidaArchive

Teaching Gen Z Shakespeare: HAMLET 💀 #hamlet #shakespeare #genz #teacher #comedyreels

In 🎭: Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1, Hamlet tells Ophelia, "I did love you once," before immediately contradicting himself with "I loved you not" and telling her to "get thee to a nunnery". This harsh rejection is part of his "antic disposition" (feigned madness) used to alienate her, likely to protect her or to perform his madness for the hidden spying Polonius and Claudius. #AndrewScott #Hamlet #Theater

🎭 “Hamlet” Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet). In 2015, he played William Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre Speech: “To be, or not to be, that is the question” BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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, Th’oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th’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 undiscovere’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 doth 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. Credit- National Theater (YouTube) DM for credit or removal request (no copyright intended) © All rights and credits reserved to the respective owners). Follow @business.fortunes for daily interesting contents #business #wealth #inspiration #money #successdiaries #successquotes #successsecrets #successminded #successmotivation #motivaton #franchise #mindset #success #inspiration #mindsetmatters #mindsetiseverything #motivational #entrepreneur #persistency #resilience #growth #greatness #competition #perfection #womenempowerment #womenpower #businesswomen #knowledge

The first time Andrew Scott delivered this iconic speech at @almeida_theatre 9 years ago in Robert Icke's 'Hamlet'

William Shakespeare, Hamlet 👇 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! Speaker: Michell Terry #poetry #hamlet #poetic #beauty

What Hamlet taught me... That overthinking can be dangerous. That revenge may feel right, but it often breaks more than it heals. That grief is heavy, and life is full of questions we may never answer. That even the strongest minds can feel lost. That truth matters. And in the end, what we choose to do, or not to do, becomes our legacy. Hamlet by William Shakespeare Credit- National Theater (YouTube) Sending ❤️ Kindly please DM for Credit or removal of this video Thank you. #explorepage #explore #explore #everafter #reelinstagram #lovereel #forever #love #poemoftheday #poem #poet #lovepoem #poems #instalovestory #instagood #instagramreels #motivation #motivationalquotes #poetryreading #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetryreels #Hamlet #LifeLessons #ShakespeareQuotes #ToBeOrNotToBe

The most famous speech by Shakespeare!👇 To be, or not to be — that is the question. Who doesn’t know this line? And yet, especially outside the English-speaking world, how many have truly heard the whole speech? For me, it’s one of the most beautiful things Shakespeare ever wrote — third only to Shylock’s speech and the Hollow Crown monologue from Richard II. It seems so simple, doesn’t it? To be, or not to be: that is the question. But even within that single line, we can call entirely different worlds. If we put the emphasis on "is", it becomes intimate: that is the question of my life right now. If we stress "that", it turns universal: the question — of the world itself. But what makes this speech so haunting is not just its music or rhythm — it’s the feeling that thinking itself has become a trap. Hamlet isn’t deciding whether to live or die; he’s circling endlessly around the awareness that he can no longer act. The more he thinks, the further he drifts from life. When he says “conscience does make cowards of us all,” he means that reflection, which is supposed to ennoble us, also paralyzes us. Thought becomes a kind of sickness — the curse of being too aware. So to be or not to be isn’t simply about suicide. It’s about the modern human condition: the impossibility of living as one thinks, and of thinking as one lives. This time I chose a theatre version, albeit not a standard one. Andrew Scott’s Hamlet is not mad; he’s lucid in the way grief makes you strange. Where others play Hamlet as either philosopher or lunatic, Scott finds the space in between: a man whose mind remains sharp while his heart breaks. His outbursts aren’t madness but the tremors of someone who feels too much, thinks too far, and can no longer bear the gap between knowing and doing. The result is a deeply tragic Hamlet; intimate, wounded, and painfully self-aware. Personally, I do prefer the version of Branagh, but I still think this is a great achievement. #hamlet #andrewscott #shakespeare #tobeornottobe #theatre #shakespearetheatre #roberticke #britishtheatre #modernhamlet #tragichero #actingmasterclass #kennethbranagh #filmkritiek #arthousecinema #cineliterature

“I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.” (Shakespeare, ACT III, Scene I) Follow the page for more… @btbookss #hamnet #hamlet #discover #keşfet #shakespeare

Benedict, the king of monologues… An excerpt from the theatre play Hamlet. @nationaltheatre #benedictcumberbatch #ベネディクトカンバーバッチ #hamlet #theater #monologue

To live or not to, that’s never really the question, is it? It’s about enduring the quiet war between our mind and our will, the ache of staying when leaving would be easier. Andrew Scott’s Hamlet doesn’t speak like a prince, he speaks like someone who’s been awake too long, wondering if surviving is the same as living. We all know that silence, the kind that hums when no one’s around, asking what any of this means. Maybe that’s why this monologue still hits centuries later. Because it isn’t about death or despair, it’s about the unbearable beauty of trying to keep going, even when you don’t know why. . . . #literature #literaturelover #literaturequotes #andrewscott #hamlet #shakespeare #classicliterature #poetry #poetrycommunity #life #philosophy #inspiration #inspirational #explore #reading #explorepage #exploremore #darkacademia #aesthetic #instagram #reels #trending #algorithm #instadaily #reach #viral #viralreels #viralvideos

You are simply mouthing the words! #hamnet #paulmescal #jessiebuckley #shakespeare