From the archives: Derek Jacobi on “Hamlet”

Derek Jacobi and London’s Old Vic Theatre company took their production of “Hamlet” to a most appropriate venue for Shakespeare’s tragedy: Under the ancient battlements of Elsinore, the castle in Denmark, that is the setting for the most famous play in the world. Jacobi and Jane Nymark, who played Ophelia, discussed the poetry of Shakespeare’s language, and the difficulties of performing outdoors, in a report by “Sunday Morning” host Charles Kurault that originally aired on Sept. 16, 1979.

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