Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Hamlet [videorecording] / an Illuminations/Royal Shakespeare Company production for BBC in association with Thirteen for WNET.org and NHK ; producers, John Wyver, Sebastian Grant ; director, Gregory Doran.

Publisher, Date:

[England] : BBC ; [New York] : Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2010]

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 182 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

This production of Shakespeare's masterpiece from Britain's renowned Royal Shakespeare Company was filmed on location rather than in the theatre. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Dynamic, exciting, and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.

Subjects:

Hamlet (Legendary character) -- Drama.

Ghosts -- Denmark -- Drama.

Children of murder victims -- Denmark -- Drama.

Mothers and sons -- Denmark -- Drama.

Melancholy -- Denmark -- Drama.

Television melodramas.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Television programs.

Other Author:

Wyver, John.

Grant, Sebastian.