neither by the looks of things had Jane Lapataire

Elsewhere I've reviewed John Barton's book Playing Shakespeare:
"In the session on speeches, Barton explains quite correctly that the great soliloquys are about the actor communicating their mood to the audience, something too often forgotten when Hamlet strolls onto the stage then looks at the ceiling. As Barton notes on the dvd (and I hadn’t realised this and neither by the looks of things had Jane Lapataire who's sitting next to him), “To Be Or Not To Be” is not only a series of questions but also the only soliloquy in the whole of Shakespeare without a personal pronoun, immediately externalising the choice that Hamlet has to make."

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