One of a number of recordings from a Gate Theatre production of ‘Hamlet’ by William Shakespeare, recorded in 1952 from Kronborg/Elsinore, Denmark.

Part 18 of 46 (originally this was labelled part 20 but we are missing part 13 and 15).

Actors performing Act 2 and Act 3 of Hamlet. End of Act 2 Scene 2 and Act 2 Scene 1.

Performance features Michael MacLiammoir, Irish actor and one of the founders of the Gate Theatre, as Hamlet, Eithne Dunne as Ophelia, and Michael Lawrence as Laertes.

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