It's hard to believe the producers of this version could have allowed it to continue much beyond Anton Lesser's first appearance on the parapets. While the rest of the cast comes up with credible performances, his Hamlet is perhaps the worst I have ever heard. He has but two means of projecting his character: either by emoting faster than a speeding bullet or whispering his lines as indistinctly as possible. I alone am at fault for buying this CD set but in the future I'll be very careful whenever I see his name as part of the cast and will make sure I have permission to return it before purchasing. Dreadful!

This disc is recorded like a theater performance, with a full cast, while many audio books are read aloud by one or two narrators. This recording has two primary faults. Number one the volume of the voices varies dramatically... which equates to: one moment it's too loud, and the next moment it's too quiet to make out what is being said. Number two, the character of King Hamlet's ghost speaks in an intentioanlly "ghostlike" manner, and therefore his speech is unintelligible much of the time. I was very disappointed.