Hamlet: An Introduction

Synopsis: Part of a series of educational films intended to serve as an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere. Designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same actors play several roles, thus showing how the plays were originally written for a specific company of actors. Includes extracts from Act I iv (Hamlet’s meeting with his father’s ghost); Act III i ('To be or not to be ...'); Act V i (the gravedigger unearthing the skull of Yorick and Hamlet’s meditation on death).
Series: New Shakespeare
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film; Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 1970
Duration: 17 mins
Availability: Out of UK distribution (2006)

Director

Peter Seabourne

Producer

John Seabourne

Writer

Peter Seabourne

Cast

Production type: Documentary/Educational/News
Plays: Hamlet
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: acting; drama in English; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Elizabethan stage

Notes: Combined on a cassette with extracts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It. A shortened version of the production (Act II i) can be purchased from www.phoenixlearninggroup.com
History: Released in the US 1971 by BFA Educational Media as part of the Great Scenes from Shakespeare series.
Uses: Secondary and further education.

Name: National Education Video Library
Contact: John Lovell
Email: tryfannevl@aol.com
Phone: 01286 676001 or 07768 105467
Fax: 01286 676001
Address: Arfon House
Bontnewydd
Caernarvon
Gwynned
LL54 7UN
Notes: Formerly the National Audio Visual (Aids) Library. No longer holds 16mm material. Retains the negatives and copyright to the EFVA material, but have no viewing copies. Video only. (1/97) Alternative address might be Arfon House, Bontnewydd, Caernarvon, Gwynned LL54 7UN Telephone/Fax 01286 676001

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