Hamlet according to Benedict

The Telegraph ponders Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet, now playing at the Barbican theatre in London:

Worth the hype?/Davies

With Hamlet, the play's not the thing/Davies

'A promising rough draft'/Cavendish


"We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, leaves aught, was is't to leave betimes? Let be."

Hamlet V.2.l.204-8.