Flashback: Patrick Stewart Tributes Shakespeare on SESAME STREET

In honor of internationally acclaimed thespian Patrick Stewart's return to Broadway in NO MAN'S LAND, kicking off with a run at the Berkeley Rep all this month before it hits the Great White Way later this season, today we tribute the world famous stage and screen superstar and acclaimed Shakespearean as he lends his legendary talent to long-running children's series SESAME STREET byway of a smashing tribute to the letter B worthy of the very Bard himself.

Evoking HAMLET quite copiously, Stewart intones "B or not a B, that is the question," beginning a surprisingly stirring homage to the useful letter of the alphabet.

"This letter doth have two bumps in the front and I reckon the word bump beginnith with B," Stewart amusingly quips.

And, in closing, he ends his dulcet tones with "Good night, sweet B."

Sweet P (as in Patrick), too!

Indeed, while the clip itself may have been taped in 2008, Stewart's performance remains vivid, vital and captivating - yet, will he work the same sort of stage magic with Pinter and Beckett on Broadway later this season? Time will tell!

More information on Patrick Stewart in Harold Pinter's NO MAN'S LAND at the Berkeley Rep now through August 31 is available at the official site here.

View Patrick Stewart's ode to the letter B in the style of Shakespeare on SESAME STREET below.