Should I read Hamlet in English or I'd rather read it in French?

>the most overrated soliloquy in shakespeare

>:--
Did they not teach him that ":--" isn't punctuation?

Act 4 scene 4 is better

youtube.com/watch?v=easWqy08wr8

I have that downloaded but I can't bring myself to watch a 4 hour film. I might have to break it up into two sessions.

It's clearly a penis.

There's an intermission in the middle of it

I know but the conventional 15 minute break isn't going to do it for me. I might do 2 hours tonight, 2 tomorrow.

Assuming you read and liked Hamlet, if you can't sit through a movie then it's a wonder how you were able to read it in the first place

You should read it in the original Klingon

I think I'm going to do this, thanks for the idea.

I knew this part in French and it actually helped me to compare the two, thanks you couldn't have posted something better.

A lot of native English speakers have trouble reading Shakespeare. Try it out and see how it goes, but there is no shame in reading a translation for now and saving the original text for later.

If you're not a native-level English speaker I'd recommend reading Shakespeare in your original language. Then, when your English is better, go back and read him again and actually get it. Watch the plays/movies well-based on the plays before reading them if you can. I suggest Orson Welles and Kennith Bragnna (that's not how is last name is spelled; it's some weird Irish spelling I can't remember right now).

This guy.

For a play it's long, in actual word count it's pretty short. It'd be a long short story or a novella at the most.

Well thanks for the advice, but for the bard part (to be or not to be) I really feel like, by reading the French translation before, I understood all the text in English and even got the difference between the French and English translation.
Anyway I'll keep this in mind and may do it if the reading really becomes too hard.

Ne s’agit-il pas de la traduction par le fils de Hugo ? Pour avoir moi-même lu Shakespeare à la fois en anglais et en français, je te conseille de débuter par la version traduite. Si la puissance du langage est intraduisible, la structure, elle, la puissance de la tragédie l’est parfaitement, et il te vaux mieux tout bien comprendre une première et revenir, ensuite, revisiter le texte en anglais plutôt que de n’y rien piger et de devoir souffrir une pièce autrement grandiose.

ps - seul problème avec Shakespeare : son génie pulvérise jusqu'à celui de Racine. Après Shakespeare, il ne restera plus rien, pour toi, du théâtre français. Still worth it though.

I vote you read it in French, then read it in English, then post on Veeky Forums about anything you don't understand in the English.

Might actually touch off a discussion about literature for a change.

Mon choix était déjà ainsi fait mais ta description me presse l'envie de le lire ! Et s'agissant de l'auteur de la traduction je ne sais pas, j'avais cru voir Victor Hugo mais tu as peut-être raison.

Was thinking about it. I might repost in a few weeks about the differences, even tough I don't think I'll be able to describe them very well in English ; I may just give a general impression. If

read it in french if your english is basic

This one's the true kino of Hamlet

I saw it on dvd, where the two parts were split formally. I watched to the intermission one night and watched the other half the next night

thepiratebay.org/user/loninappleton/0/3

here if someone is interested, this guy uploads some plays from time to time.

I love Ralph Fiennes in Man and Superman. It's actually the one thing that I can't wait to rewatch.