Rehearsal stills by Christopher Upham

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Analyzing the words of psychopaths (2011)

Glenn has mentioned that he sees Claudius as being at least partially a sociopath. This lecture by Jeff Hancock, a professor of communication, delves into the linguistic variation between reports of murders given by imprisoned psychopaths versus imprisoned non-psychopaths. 

Note his point that psychopaths tend to use murder to achieve an instrumental, material, goal. Also note the emphasis psychopaths put on eating and drinking when describing their murders.

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"Hungry like the wolf: A word-pattern analysis of the language of psychopaths" Hancock, Woodworth & Porter. Legal and Criminological Psychology (2011)

Prison interview with psychopathic murder Paul Bernardo (mentioned as an example in the above talk)

BBC Shakespere Uncovered - David Tennant on Hamlet (2012)

This excellent documentary follows actor David Tennant as he looks for the answer to just why Hamlet has so captivated audiences and minds alike for so long. He speaks to Shakespeare scholars like Stephen Greenblat, Majorie Garber, and Jonathan Bate. He muses with other Hamlets: Jude Law, Simon Russell Beale, and a young actor at RADA. In my personal favorite moment, he actually gets to touch the real copies of the original editions of Hamlet - including one of only two 1603 "bad" quartos in existence. 

A film of David Tennant's Hamlet, with Patrick Stewart as Claudius/Ghost, can be see online via PBS. 

Rehearsal stills 3/6 - the Mousetrap

Richard Burton's Hamlet - "words, words, words"