![]() ![]() ![]() Patrick Stewart might just have been the interpretive flaw in this 2009 Hamlet for me. The ghost was ideal but for me, his brother – the king – was not. Not convincing enough to murder, not cowardly enough, and not guilty enough. I hoped for something approaching an older Macbeth: capable of murder, capable of holding a facade (which Stewart does), and with the capacity for breakdown. The prime candidate would be Antony Sher (partner of Gregory Doran). Claudius is a hard one to place, precisely because we encounter a character who has previously committed murder but only gets exposed for it in the play.īut what Stewart’s stalwart performance does is showcase the very best of David Tennant. ![]()
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