Your Favorite Hamlet?

This one, without poll:

R1 why

Gilligan.

I like my Hamlet with a little Cheeselet.

It IS Your Favorite Hamlet!

The Mel Gibson version with Glenn Close made Hanlet very accessible

Oh mine is the western — I love the diced ham and bell peppers.

West Willington, CT.

I lived there one summer.

Judy

I enjoyed Kevin Kline's and Richard Chamberlain's versions. A little weepy, but with sex appeal. Never saw Bernhardt or Plummer, though I have seen the rest of OP's list. I'd love to see a full version with Michael Maloney.

I recall really liking Gibson's Hamlet, whatever he may be as a human being, he can be a very good actor. I saw Ruth Negga in the role a few years back in Dublin (production moved to Broadway, I think) and she was surprisingly terrific, though the rest of the production was pretty meh.

In college, my Shakespeare professor-a guy who lived and breathed the bard- said that he felt Mel Gibson was better than Olivier. Gibson played him as a brash, impulsive hothead who acted without thinking and Olivier was so brooding and thought everything to death.

I like the Gibson film a lot and I despise Gibson in everything else. And Helena Bonham-Carter made the best Ophelia.

Iain Glen as Hamlet in the "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead" movie.

I felt Gibson's Hamlet got too much into the Oedipus complex, which I do not believe is in the text.

John Barrymore - he revolutionized the way Hamlet was played from the 19th Century melodramatic, princely interpretations of Henry Irving and Booth to his more naturalistic (for 1922) and emotionally complex performance. In 1933 there was a proposed film version of Barrymore’s Hamlet with a test (below) filmed in two-strip technicolor but Barrymore’s alcoholism led to his inability to remember lines and the project was scrapped.

Betty's version.

On stage, I loved Tom Hulce and Andrew Scott.

Ebenezer!

Richard Chamberlain

I know DL has eldergays but do we really have ones who saw Sarah Bernhardt?!

R20 Thank you! DL loves revering performances they've never seen.

[quote]I felt Gibson's Hamlet got too much into the Oedipus complex, which I do not believe is in the text.

Good actors and directors find new ideas and thoughts in the text all the time

Richard Burbage