A Meditation on Life, Death and Faith. Features one of England's finest Shakespearean actors, Sir John Gielgud, reciting Hamlet's Third Soliloquy and an unidentified actor from The Marlowe Society as Macbeth, delivering the famous “Tomorrow Speech“. “Dance of the Blessed Spirits“ from “Orfeo ed Euridice“ by Gluck follows, accompanied by Christian art, prayers and quotes from Scripture, along with famous quotations by Robert Herrick, Keats and Homer. Paintings by Carl Heinrich Bloch and Adolphe William Bo
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