Talks About Nothing

1 2 Brian Cox and Alison Gopnik Although children know nothing about the Bard, Shakespearean actor Brian Cox has taught a toddler Hamlet’s “To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy. In this engaging discussion, Cox and developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik explore the similarities between two-year-olds and actors and revisit the existentialist questions within King Lear.