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Fiction film. The first filmed version of Hamlet to be produced in England. For a detailed account of the complicated provenance of this film see Ball, especially pp.318-20.
Television drama by Francis Cockrell based on Rupert Croft-Cook’s original story. In order to get a murderer to confess, a detective hires a famous Shakespearean actress to play the ghost of the dead man,...
Complete performance with Robert Stephens as Richard, Peggy Ashcroft as Queen Margaret, and Glenda Jackson as Lady Anne.
Radio series. Readings from six scenes from Hamlet: Hamlet’s encounter with the ghost (I, iv&v), Hamlet’s dialogue with Ophelia (III), Hamlet’s discovery of Claudius at prayer (III), Hamlet’s...
Fiction film. An abridged version of Hamlet which begins with the graveyard scene and ends with the duel scene. Hamlet also sees Ophelia’s ghost. Ball (op cit) writes: ‘It is easy to brand this...
A video recording of The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2003 production of Richard III directed by Gale Edwards with Wallace Acton as Richard. Videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor.
Radio broadcast. Thomas Ambroise’s five-act opera with Simon Keenlyside in the title role. The Geneva Grand Theatre Chorus and the Suisse Romande Orchestra is conducted by Louis Langr .
Film version of Hamlet of a stage production. It is spoken in English, and set among the Frafra people of northern Ghana. performed by students of the University of Ghana School of Music and Drama.
Comic parody. Hamlet meet’s his father’s ghost and discovers how his uncle killed his father. The Prince takes refuge until he can conquer his enemies and become King of Denmark. The film concludes with...
Feature film. An experimental, multimedia re-telling of the Hamlet story. A sequel to HAMLET-X.
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