Judi Dench stuns Graham Norton Show with spellbinding Shakespeare reading

Dame Judi Dench mesmerised The Graham Norton Show audience on Friday (27 October) nights episode with a rendition of one of Shakespeares ballads.

Dench was on the show to discuss her new memoir about the Bard, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent. Asked about the title, she explained: Michael [her late husband Michael Williams] and I were both in Shakespeare plays for four years when we first met so he literally was paying our rent.

Norton then asked how much Shakespeare was constantly in her head, to which she replied: Well, as much as it is all of us, of course.

The host was then teasingly challenged by Whitehall to quote a passage from Shakespeare. Norton shockingly replied: How all occasions do inform against me, Hamlets soliloquy in Act 4, Scene 4, drawing gasps and cheers from the audience.

Norton followed up by asking whether Dench would read some Shakespeare for the audience. The star proceeded to read Shakespeares Sonnet 29 from memory in dramatic fashion.

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