Shakespeare at Hay Festival 2016
Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
The actor takes us through his thoughts when tackling that famous speech.
- Paapa Essiedu's take on 'To be or not to be...'
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- Schama Chameleon
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- Juliet not Romeo
- 'Hamlet was a play I admired but didn鈥檛 like'
- The worst 'knock, knock' joke Shakespeare never told
- Did Shakespeare really write his plays?
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- Malorie Blackman's life lesson
- Being Lear
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- Gillian Clarke's Running away to the Sea
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- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on their influences
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- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake on how the character Hamlet surprised them
- Maxine Peake's approach to tackling Hamlet
- Maxine Peake on the challenges of playing Hamlet
- Paapa Essiedu and Maxine Peake's conceptions of Hamlet
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- Maxine Peake discusses her Shakespeare acting past
- Russell T Davies on young women and suicide
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- James Shapiro on his own Shakespeare experiences
- James Shapiro discusses Shakespeare's productivity
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