Performing Hamlet

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Stage history -- The fifties : Michael Redgrave, Alec Guinness, Richard Burton, Paul Scofield, Michael Redgrave -- The sixties : Jeremy Brett, Peter O'Toole, David Warner, Nicol Williamson -- The seventies : Alan Howard, Ian McKellen, Albert Finney, Ben Kingsley, Derek Jacobi, Frances de la Tour -- The eighties : Jonathan Pryce, Michael Pennington, Anton Lesser, Roger Rees, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, Daniel Day-Lewis -- The nineties : Kenneth Branagh, Alan Cumming, Stephen Dillane, Ralph Fiennes, Alex Jennings, Paul Rhys -- The noughties : Mark Rylance, Adrian Lester, Samuel West, Michael Maloney, Ben Whishaw, Jamie Ballard, David Tennant, Jude Law -- The teens : Rory Kinnear, Michael Sheen, Jonathan Slinger, Maxine Peake, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paapa Essiedu, Andrew Scott, Simon Russell Beale -- Hamlet observed : the National Theatre at work -- Hamlets at Elsinore.