Hamlet, Part 2
- Summary
- 1947 BBC live studio production by George More O’Ferrall of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, given in two parts on subsequent Sundays.
- Theatre play
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 14 December 1947
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
- Playwright
- William Shakespeare
- Sets / Settings
- Peter Bax
- Fight Arranger
- Denis Loraine
- Cast
Hugh Butt Norwegian Captain John Byron Hamlet Cyril Hardingham A Gentleman Hamilton Humphries Sailor Alan Judd Fortinbras Jay Laurier Gravedigger Patrick Macnee Laertes D. Hay Petrie Gravedigger Robert Rietty Rosencrantz Frederick Ross Doctor of Divinity Sebastian Shaw Claudius Julian Somers Osric Patrick Troughton Horatio Richard Warner Guildenstern Arthur Wontner Polonius
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 8.30pm on Tuesday 16 December 1947.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- Denmark, as theme or setting; murder; royalty
Print sources
- Title
- Hamlet (Website: database)
- Author/creator
- BUFVC
- Reference
- http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/index.php/title/av36685
- Title
- Radio Times, 12 December 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 31; article, p. 29
- Title
- Radio Times, 26 December 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- 'Do You Agree? Critics and Viewers Express Their Opinions on Hamlet’, p. 31
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