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I'd almost given up on Hamlet, but Benedict Cumberbatch has won me back over to the play and, in particular, to the character.
J. Kelly Nestruck, Globe and Mail
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As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
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