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Originally Posted by All Shall Be Judged
Agreed, his performance was almost faultless. Hamlet's youth is a requirement of the text rather than a flaw in DT's delivery - think about how many times the word youth, or derivatives thereof, are uttered during the play (most frequently with reference to the eponymous Hamlet). It's a major theme which is so often overlooked in analysis, and even more so in performance. Still, as criticisms go, it's fairly minor here.
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You're not wrong, but given that Hamlet would have been aged anywhere between 23 and 30, it's not like they picked a 30 yr old man to play Romeo or some shit.
I'll have to try to download this version. I'd imagine Tennant at his best would make a pretty cool Hamlet, and it's not often you go this googly-eyed over something. (Admittedly, you managed to manufacture a practically non-existent fault our of sheer pedantry, but I know you see it as a point of honor to find fault with everything ever made........ so the triviality of your criticism is pretty much a ringing endorsement in itself. ;] )