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Benedict Cumberbatch has been described as a “five-star Hamlet” trapped inside a “three-star production”, according to critics. However, his mother, Wanda Ventham, has said that she thinks her son “makes a bloody good Hamlet“.

Cumberbatch, whose Prince of Denmark slouches in a hoodie, listening to gramophone records as he plots his revenge, is Cumberbatch “a blazing, five-star Hamlet trapped in a middling, three-star show”, says Dominic Cavendish in the Daily Telegraph. He also stars on the...