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Here's a skull has lain in the earth three and twenty years

here's a skull has lain in the earth three and twenty years

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..here's a skull has lain in the earth
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three and twenty years.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
29
Timestamp in Movie
02:22:29
Uploaded
May 09, 2025
Season
1
Episode
3
Genres
drama

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Movie Summary

A series of blockbuster theatre productions filmed live by the National Theatre.
S01 • E03 ― Whose was it? ― A whoreson mad fellow's it was. - Great British Theatre 00:04
― Whose was it? ― A whoreson mad fellow's it was.
S01 • E01 Uniquely, of all his works, plays, poems, - Great British Theatre 00:09
Uniquely, of all his works, plays, poems,
S01 • E03 This same skull, sir, was Yorick's skull, - Great British Theatre 00:06
This same skull, sir, was Yorick's skull,
S01 • E01 And you can see it in London at the British Library. - Great British Theatre 00:04
And you can see it in London at the British Library.
S01 • E01 And Thomas More's a lucky play for me, - Great British Theatre 00:07
And Thomas More's a lucky play for me,
S01 • E01 I suppose with a Catholic martyr, - Great British Theatre 00:09
I suppose with a Catholic martyr,
S01 • E03 He hath borne me on his back a thousand times - Great British Theatre 00:06
He hath borne me on his back a thousand times
S01 • E01 And so it had to wait till the 20th century, 1964, - Great British Theatre 00:09
And so it had to wait till the 20th century, 1964,
S01 • E03 How abhorred my imagination is, my gorge rises at it. - Great British Theatre 00:05
How abhorred my imagination is, my gorge rises at it.
S01 • E01 This was in Nottingham at the Playhouse, and... - Great British Theatre 00:04
This was in Nottingham at the Playhouse, and...
S01 • E01 So you're looking perhaps at the last actor who will ever be able to say - Great British Theatre 00:07
So you're looking perhaps at the last actor who will ev...
S01 • E01 [APPLAUSE] - Great British Theatre 00:09
[APPLAUSE]
S01 • E03 Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? - Great British Theatre 00:05
Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on...
S01 • E03 ― No one now to mock your own grinning? ― (SOLEMN DRUMBEAT) - Great British Theatre 00:09
― No one now to mock your own grinning? ― (SOLEMN DRUMBEAT)...
S01 • E01 The Apprentice Boys of London are out on the town, - Great British Theatre 00:13
The Apprentice Boys of London are out on the town,
S01 • E03 This doth betoken the corpse they follow - Great British Theatre 00:06
This doth betoken the corpse they follow
S01 • E03 'Twas some estate. Couch we a while and mark. - Great British Theatre 00:04
'Twas some estate. Couch we a while and mark.
S01 • E01 Sent out by the authorities to put down the riot, - Great British Theatre 00:05
Sent out by the authorities to put down the riot,
S01 • E01 One by reading them the Riot Act. - Great British Theatre 00:04
One by reading them the Riot Act.
S01 • E01 And then with an appeal to humanity, - Great British Theatre 00:07
And then with an appeal to humanity,