Elsinore

Synopsis
After his capture by the pirate Captain True, Claudius returns to Elsinore determined to find out why King Hamlet did not pay the ransom demand. A strange, Danish farmer comes to court to deliver horses as a give to the king.

Elsinore is set in an alternative Europe of the 1930s and re-imagines the Danish Court in the years leading up to the evens in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Series
Elsinore
Language
English
Country
Great Britain; United Kingdom
Medium
Radio
Notes
A four-part, prequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Subjects
Shakespeare

Online availability

URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09l8z3s
Delivery
Streamed

Credits

Director
Marc Beeby; Sasha Yevtushenko
Writer
Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Cast
Abbie Andrews 
Adam Fitzgerald 
Ben Crow 
Clive Hayward 
Isabella Inchbald 
John Heffernan 
John Light 
Philip Bretherton 
Rupert Holliday Evans 
Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong 

Distributor

Name

BBC Radio 4

Web
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