Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Television program : 1980)

Title:

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / by William Shakespeare ; presented by the British Broadcasting Corporation ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Rodney Bennett.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Ambrose Video Pub., [between 2000 and 2001]

Description:

1 videodisc (222 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + guide.

4 3/4 in. stamping

NTSC

video file region 1

DVD video

Summary:

A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death.

Series:

The complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Works. 2000. Ambrose Video.

Subjects:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays -- Television adaptations.

Hamlet (Legendary character) -- Drama.

Revenge -- Drama.

Princes -- Denmark -- Drama.

Genre:

Television adaptations.

Drama.

Fiction television programs.

Tragedies (Drama)

Made-for-TV movies.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Television adaptation of (work): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Messina, Cedric, television producer.

Bennett, Rodney, 1935-2017 television director.

Jacobi, Derek, actor.

Bloom, Claire, 1931- actor.

Porter, Eric, 1928-1995, actor.

Stewart, Patrick, 1940- actor.

Allen, Patrick, 1927-2006, actor.

James, Emrys, 1928-1989 actor.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.

Time-Life Television, production company.

Ambrose Video Publishing, publisher.

Other Title:

Title on disc label: Hamlet

Contained in (work): Shakespeare plays (Television program)

Notes:

"Tragedy"--Container.

"Word for word as written by William Shakespeare. The most popular and widely used versions of Shakespeare's plays."--Container.

Originally produced in 1980.

For home use or face-to-face teaching.

Senior cameraman, Jim Atkinson ; incidental music composed and conducted by Dudley Simpson ; videotape editor, David Hillier ; literary consultant, John Wilders.

Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Eric Porter, Patrick Stewart, Patrick Allen, Emrys James.

DVD-video; digitally remastered; picture & sound enhanced.

In English with optional English subtitles.

ISBN:

739815002434

Other Number:

45687469

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

775782

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD 822.33 Hamlet