This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever made before the days of editing.
3:25
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| Track # | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Act 1 Scene 1 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 10:15 |
| 2 | Act 1 Scene 2 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 7:41 |
| 3 | Act 1 Scene 2 (cont) Hamlet ‘O that this too too solid flesh...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 7:16 |
| 4 | Act 1 Scene 3 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:36 |
| 5 | Act 1 Scene 3 (cont) Polonius ‘Yet here, Laertes?’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 4:22 |
| 6 | Act 1 Scene 4 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:06 |
| 7 | Act 1 Scene 4 (cont) Hamlet ‘Angels and ministers of grace...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:50 |
| 8 | Act 1 Scene 5 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 0:49 |
| 9 | Act 1 Scene 5 (cont) Ghost ‘I am thy father’s spirit.’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 5:45 |
| 10 | Act 1 Scene 5 (cont) Hamlet ‘O all you host of Heaven!’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 6:23 |
| 11 | Act 2 Scene 1 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 3:52 |
| 12 | Act 2 Scene 1 (cont) Ophelia ‘My lord, as I was sewing in my closet...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:14 |
| 13 | Act 2 Scene 2 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 4:10 |
| 14 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont) Polonius ‘My liege, and madam, to expostulate...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 4:49 |
| 15 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont) Polonius ‘How does my good Lord Hamlet?’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:23 |
| 16 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont) Polonius ‘You go to seek the Lord Hamlet...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 5:24 |
| 17 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont) Guildenstern ‘There are the players.’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 1:46 |
| 18 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont) Hamlet ‘Y’are welcome masters, welcome all.’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:11 |
| 19 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont) 1 Player ‘Anon he finds him, striking too short... | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 4:37 |
| 20 | Act 2 Scene 2 (cont) Hamlet ‘O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 3:40 |
| 21 | Act 3 Scene 1 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:52 |
| 22 | Act 3 Scene 1 (cont) Hamlet ‘To be, or not to be, that is the question.’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 5:41 |
| 23 | Act 3 Scene 1 (cont) Ophelia ‘Oh what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:12 |
| 24 | Act 3 Scene 2 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 4:20 |
| 25 | Act 3 Scene 2 (cont) Hamlet ‘They are coming to the play.’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:31 |
| 26 | Act 3 Scene 2 (cont) Player King ‘Full thirty times hath Phoebus’...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 4:15 |
| 27 | Act 3 Scene 2 (cont) Lucianus ‘Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 3:06 |
| 28 | Act 3 Scene 2 (cont) Hamlet ‘Oh, the recorders. Let me see one.’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 1:39 |
| 29 | Act 3 Scene 2 (cont) Hamlet ‘Tis now the very witching time of night.’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 0:52 |
| 30 | Act 3 Scene 3 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 1:47 |
| 31 | Act 3 Scene 3 (cont) Claudius ‘Oh my offence is rank, it smells...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:59 |
| 32 | Act 3 Scene 3 (cont) Hamlet ‘Now might I do it pat...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 1:48 |
| 33 | Act 3 Scene 4 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:45 |
| 34 | Act 3 Scene 4 (cont) Hamlet ‘Look here upon this picture...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:28 |
| 35 | Act 3 Scene 4 (cont) Hamlet ‘Save me and hover o’er me...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:18 |
| 36 | Act 3 Scene 4 (cont) Gertrude ‘This is the very coinage....’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 4:24 |
| 37 | Act 4 Scene 1 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:16 |
| 38 | Act 4 Scene 2 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 1:12 |
| 39 | Act 4 Scene 3 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 3:31 |
| 40 | Act 4 Scene 4 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 1:46 |
| 41 | Act 4 Scene 4 (cont) Hamlet ‘How all occasions do inform...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:30 |
| 42 | Act 4 Scene 5 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 1:21 |
| 43 | Act 4 Scene 5 (cont) Ophelia ‘Where is the beauteous majesty...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 5:47 |
| 44 | Act 4 Scene 5 (cont) Laertes ‘O thou vile king...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 1:47 |
| 45 | Act 4 Scene 5 (cont) Laertes ‘O heat dry up my brains...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 3:47 |
| 46 | Act 4 Scene 6 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 1:47 |
| 47 | Act 4 Scene 7 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 7:08 |
| 48 | Act 4 Scene 7 (cont) Laertes ‘I bought an unction of a mountebank...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 1:28 |
| 49 | Act 4 Scene 7 (cont) Gertrude ‘There is a willow grows aslant...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 2:01 |
| 50 | Act 5 Scene 1 | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 3:25 |
| 51 | Act 5 Scene 1 (cont) Clown ‘In youth when I did love...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 5:14 |
| 52 | Act 5 Scene 1 (cont) Hamlet ‘Alas poor Yorick!’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 1:56 |
| 53 | Act 5 Scene 1 (cont) Hamlet ‘But soft, but soft!’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 4:23 |
| 54 | Act 5 Scene 2 (cont) | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 3:40 |
| 55 | Act 5 Scene 2 (cont) Osric ‘Your lordship is right welcome...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 6:02 |
| 56 | Act 5 Scene 2 (cont) Claudius‘Come Hamlet, come and take this hand...’ | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 10:27 |
| 57 | Act 5 Scene 2 (cont) Fortinbras ‘Where is this sight? | John Gielgud, Marian Spencer, Celia Johnson, Andrew Cruickshank, and full cast | 3:00 |
