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An essay film, part fiction and part documentary, that explores how Hamlet haunts audiences and the play’s characters, drawing on the work of Marx and Derrida among others.
A film version of Maxine Peake as Hamlet in the 2014 staging at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. Sarah Frankcom directs for stage, Margaret Williams for screen.
A dramatisation of the life and times of Henry Purcell. Little is known about the enigmatic composer, but director Tony Palmer makes up for this by contextualising his story in late 17th Century England, and...
An intense drama based around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the transfer of power from British to Indian hands. Based on Saadat Hussan Manto’s famous short story about partition,...
An unabridged recording of the play using the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition edited by Janis Lull. Kenneth Branagh is Richard.
Radio version of the play, co-produced by the Renaissance Theatre Company and BBC Radio 3. With John Gielgud in the title role. Incidental music by Patrick Doyle. Produced in celebration of John Gielgud’s...
Video recording using three cameras of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1993 production of Hamlet directed by Adrian Noble with Kenneth Branagh in the title role.
The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own. Narrated by Michael Kitchen.
A modern translation by Don Taylor of Sophacles’ tragedy depicting the individual conscience in conflict with tyranny. Antigone (Juliet Stevenson), the daughter of Oedipus, defies a royal edict when one of...
Television production shot entirely in a studio with Michael Hordern in the title role.
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