I can recommend the following interview with Patrick Stewart about playing Hamlet's father and Claudius, because it's like a scene-within-a-scene about personal "time," and not a Holo-Deck memory about Captain Picard's life. Very poignant, honest, and revealing.
I'd like to see Stewart, at 66, play Lear or Shakespeare, himself. I'm sure he could do a competent job reading the sonnets.
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From The Times
July 14, 2008
Patrick Stewart: from captain to Hamlet
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