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How long will a man lie in the earth ere he rot?
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How long will a man lie in the earthere he rot?

How long will a man lie in the earth
ere he rot?

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How long will a man lie in the earth ere he rot?
Duration
5 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
02:22:00
Uploaded
May 09, 2025
Season
1
Episode
3
Genres
drama

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A series of blockbuster theatre productions filmed live by the National Theatre.
S01 • E01 Well, I used to think... and then I did Coronation Street. - Great British Theatre 00:06
Well, I used to think... and then I did Coronation Street.
S01 • E03 ― A tanner will last you nine year. ― Why he more than another? - Great British Theatre 00:04
― A tanner will last you nine year. ― Why he more than anoth...
S01 • E01 Ten episodes, and each episode was written - Great British Theatre 00:07
Ten episodes, and each episode was written
S01 • E03 Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade - Great British Theatre 00:07
Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade
S01 • E03 And your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body. - Great British Theatre 00:05
And your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.
S01 • E01 And one of the plays that Shakespeare contributed a speech to - Great British Theatre 00:10
And one of the plays that Shakespeare contributed a speech t...
S01 • E03 ..here's a skull has lain in the earth - Great British Theatre 00:06
..here's a skull has lain in the earth
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...