The South Bank Show: Hamlet

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Three directors – Richard Eyre, Ron Daniels and Yuri Lyubimov – discuss the merits and relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet, aided by Orson Welles, Tyron Guthrie, John Barton and Michael Pennington. Performances are provided by Hamlets past and present including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Derek Jacobi, John Barrymore and Sarah Bernhardt.