Tom Hiddleston reads Hamlet’s soliloquy (Act 3, Scene 1) (The Dragon Book of Verse)

In 2017, Tom contributed to the “Dragon School Book of Verse“ audio CD with two Shakespeare readings: Prospero’s Farewell to his Magic (The Tempest) and Hamlet’s Soliloquy (Hamlet). “To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? ’Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There’s the respect That makes Calamity of so long life: For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time, The Oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s Contumely, The pangs of disprized Love,
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