William Shakespeare - 12 - The Winter's Tale - Caedmon 1961 torrent

What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time 
Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, 
Looking before and after, gave us not 
That capability and god-like reason 
To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be 
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on the event,
A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom
And ever three parts coward, I do not know 
Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;'
Sith I have cause and will and strength and means 
To do't.


...the final, fatal spur to action.

The BBC Radio Collection Hamlet with Michael Sheen. Superbly produced and excellently acted. The defect is that Shakespearean Tragedy requires great, and not merely 'excellent' acting. But judge for yourself...

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