Claudius, Hamlet's Late Father

For this assignment I chose the speech of Claudius the ghost, Hamlet's late father. I think that this speech is more important than any other in the story. Had Hamlet not have met his father's ghost, he would not have known that his father was murdered by his uncle. This speech was given to introduce the conflict into the story.
The first version of this speech I decided to use was created for a program known as “This is Hamlet” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gpDgB-GJPY The reason I chose this performance was because it was so very different than I had seen previously. I have attended Hamlet live, and the staging of this particular scene involved quite a bit of movement and the set at this point contained many different levels. I found this version to be extremely different because it has very little movement and the stage is simply flat.
His voice is very quiet and solemn for the majority of the speech and sometimes his words are even inaudible. For most of the lines, Robert Parsons maintains a monotone voice, almost as if the character is talking to himself. This makes his voice feel distant in a way. There are not a lot of dynamic changes in the actors lines, except when he is talking about the Queen. At this point he raises his voice to almost a shout. There is only one other point in the speech that the king raises his voice to the same volume, and that is when he shouts “Oh Horrible!”. The actor's lack of expression makes it seem like he is recalling all that has