| Record Number |
675470 |
| 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 |
London : BBC Worldwide, 2011, 2009. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 217 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Contents note |
Based on the play by William Shakespeare. |
| Creation Note |
Director of photography, Chris Seager ; editor, Tony Cranstoun ; composer, Paul Englishby. |
| Performer note |
David Tennant, Patrick Stewart. |
| Summary Note |
"In 2008, the UK's eminent Royal Shakespeare Company brought Hamlet - Shakespeare's most famous and perhaps most influential play - back to the stage, spoken in verse but with contemporary dress and David Tennant in the eponymous role. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted either the level of interest of the near-unanimously positive reviews. Tennant's interpretation was recognised as defining the role for a generation and Patrick Stewart - playing Claudius - as a performance of great depth and complexity. In this specially-shot screen version of the stage play (filmed on location rather than in the theatre), Tennant and Stewart reprise their roles. Dynamic, exciting and contemporary, it brings Shakespeare's greatest play to a far wider audience than ever before."--Container. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : PG. |
| Language note |
Soundtrack in English, with optional subtitles in English. |
| Subject - Name |
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Hamlet |
| Subject |
Hamlet,(Legendary character)Drama |
| Ghosts -- Denmark -- Drama |
| Children of murder victims -- Denmark -- Drama |
| Mothers and sons -- Denmark -- Drama |
| Melancholy -- Denmark -- Drama |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
| Added Author |
Wyver, John |
| Grant, Sebastian |
| Doran, Gregory |
| Tennant, David, 1971- |
| Stewart, Patrick, 1940- |
| Englishby, Paul |
| Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Hamlet. |
| Corporate Author |
Illuminations (Firm) |
| Royal Shakespeare Company |
| British Broadcasting Corporation |
| WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.) |
| Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk |
| BBC Active (Firm) |
| Shelf Location |
DVD 822.33 HAML |
