Ironically, it is Joseph Fiennes’ brother Ralph who holds the Shakespeare credentials. Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love (1998) The sole recipient of a Tony Award for starring as Hamlet on Broadway, he also joins Patrick Stewart in receiving the William Shakespeare Award from the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC.

Patrick Stewart might just have been the interpretive flaw in this 2009 Hamlet for me.

The ghost was ideal but for me, his brother – the king – was not. Not convincing enough to murder, not cowardly enough, and not guilty enough. I hoped for something approaching an older Macbeth: capable of murder, capable of holding a facade (which Stewart does), and with the capacity for breakdown. The prime candidate would be Antony Sher (partner of Gregory Doran). Claudius is a hard one to place, precisely because we encounter a character who has previously committed murder but only gets exposed for it in the play.īut what Stewart’s stalwart performance does is showcase the very best of David Tennant.

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