Usually I’m glad if Shakespeare is hot news. But the mania over the shifting of the ‘To be or not to be’ speech is just depressing
Cumberfever has reached critical levels, as previews for that production of Hamlet at the Barbican continue. The Times ran a front-page story this week on the astounding news that the “To be, or not to be” soliloquy has been moved from the beginning of the production, where Benedict Cumberbatch had delivered it in early previews, to act three.
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