Kenneth Branagh

[Foxbat]

So true; reading it an seeing it on stage are two completely different things.

I agree. I never really got to grips with Hamlet until I saw it performed. My favourite version was a blend of Hamlet and Kendo and - not only did it deliver - it was a magnificent spectacle.

 

[LensmanZ313]

I like his work; I thought his Henry V was brilliant, breathing life and fire into the Bard's work; I've loved all of his Shakespearean films. My old hometown is Ashland, Oregon, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival . . . I've always enjoyed Shakespeare and Branagh revitalized him.

Ego? Oliver had a lot of ego and his mean-spirited treatment of fellow actors, like Richard Harris, is legendary.

I do, I must say, enjoy Sir Ian McKellan's Richard III too.