Hamlet: this book is so RUDE about OLD MEN
https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slow-shakespeare/2025/02/12/hamlet-dont-even-try-to-get-the-better-of-me-old-man-2-2-190-201-inkycloak-slowshakespeare/
I am continuing to like Rory Kinnear's energy in the 2010 National Theatre Hamlet. It emphasised surveillance, via those big windows & functionaries muttering into earpieces. Those vulnerable little feet though...