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Hamlet: Theatre and Film Productions

(Hamlet: page 2)

productions and performances :
stage history / actors, pictures of performances / reviews of productions
film versions (1900 - 2002)

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page 1:
on-line editions (Folio and Quartos) / modern editions / audio excerpts / translations (German, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese)/ sources /
page 2:
productions and performances : stage history / actors, pictures of performances / reviews of productions / film versions (1900 - 2002)
page 3:
adaptations in literature / parodies / adaptations in music : musicals - operas and incidental music - songs - ballets / paintings, engravings / popular culture: tourism
page 4:
bibliographies - historical criticism - recent criticism
page 5:
in the classroom: courses, lectures, general approaches / study questions, essay topics / teaching resources / teaching units / sites for students / deutsche Webseiten / en français / just for fun
page 6:
Proseminar Hamlet (2002): course programme, film programme, reading Hamlet, bibliography, editing Hamlet
page 7:
A project in progress: Hamlet revisiting: Uses (allusions, quotations etc.) in later texts. Based on a Moby version of Hamlet

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productions, performances

a) stage history

Hamlet: stage history [http://www.georgedillon.com/theatre/hamlet_programme_stage_history.shtml]
Who is Hamlet? (about actors who played Hamlet) Shakespeare Magazine, vol. 6, issue 1, Winter 02. [http://www.shakespearemag.com/winter02/hamlet.asp] (March 2002)

Gary Taylor, Hamlet in Africa 1607 [http://www.as.ua.edu/english/strode/articles/taylor/hamlet3.htm]

Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the UK [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html] (April 2002)

The Traffic on Stage (Shakespeare Productions 1999 - 2002 in the UK) [http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/testjon3/] (April 2002)

Shakespeare at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1906-1960) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html] (April 2002)

New Shakespeare Company online exhibition (from 1962 onwards, history, photographs, programmes, theatre architecture etc.) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/NSC/home.html] (April 2002)

Romanian productions from 1884-2000. Monica Matei-Chesnoiu. University "Ovidius" Constanta, Romania: "Mounting Revenge and Power from the Margins: Masks of Romanian Hamlets" [article on this site]

b) some actors, pictures of performances

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs by Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet. [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/] 47 pictures to Hamlet: tragedies [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/tragedy.shtml] (Jan. 2002)

famous Hamlets [http://www.d.umn.edu/~kmaurer/hamlet/famoushamlets.html]
(among others: John Barrymore, Sarah Bernhardt, Kenneth Branagh, Richard Burton, Mel Gibson, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Derek Jacobi, Stacey Keach, Kevin Kline, Laurence Olivier, Christoper Plumber, Patrick Stewart, Nicol Williamson) see
actors' index

Who is Hamlet? (about actors who played Hamlet) Shakespeare Magazine, vol. 6, issue 1, Winter 02. [http://www.shakespearemag.com/winter02/hamlet.asp] (March 2002)

Edwin Booth http://www.d.umn.edu/~kmaurer/hamlet/booth.html
J.P. Kemble http://www.d.umn.edu/~kmaurer/hamlet/kemble.html
David Garrick as Hamlet, written by Arthur Murphy (1802) [http://classicaltheatre.com/david_garrick_hamlet_article_written_in_1802.htm]
(Aug. 2001)
Hamlet a Woman? [http://shea.mit.edu/ramparts/commentaryguides/hamlet_a_woman/index.htm] (March 2002)
Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet [http://www.d.umn.edu/~kmaurer/hamlet/bernhardt.html] Robins, Elizabeth. On Seeing Madame Bernhardt's Hamlet. (North American Review, 171, 1900, 908-919) [http://www.jsu.edu/depart/english/robins/docshort/onseeham.htm]
Asta Nielson as
Hamlet (1920), with video clips [http://shea.mit.edu/ramparts/commentaryguides/hamlet_a_woman/female_gaze.htm] (March 2002)

Representations of Ophelia [http://www.d.umn.edu/~kmaurer/hamlet/Ophelia.html]

Dekker, Nicholas.
Celluloid Hamlets (compares four screen versions of the "to be or not to be" soliloquy: Olivier, Williamson, Gibson, Branagh) [http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/346/proj/dekker/interp.htm] (May 2002)

Branagh, Kenneth as Hamlet (audio excerpt from Branagh film: to listen, click at scene picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Jan. 2002)
Briers, Richard as Polonius. (audio excerpt from Branagh film: to listen, click at scene picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition ) (Jan. 2002)
Burton, Richard as
Hamlet, directed by Sir John Gielgud, full version of a life performance at New York 1964. [http://www.aentv.com/hamlet/mainstage1_default.htm]
Christie, Julie as Gertrude. (audio excerpt from Branagh film: to listen, click at scene picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition )(Jan. 2002)
Close, Glenn as Hamlet (audio excerpt from Zeffirelli film; to listen, click at scene picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition) (Jan. 2002)
Jacobi, Derek as Claudius. (audio excerpt from Branagh film: to listen, click at scene picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition ) (Jan. 2002)
Parker, Nathaniel as Laertes. (audio excerpt from Zeffirelli film; to listen, click at scene picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition) (Jan. 2002)
Winslet, Kate as Ophelia. (audio excerpt from Branagh film: to listen, click at scene picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition )] (Jan. 2002)

c) reviews of productions

New Theatre, London 1935 dir. John Gielgud, (Hamlet: Gielgud; Osric: Alec Guinness) production notes, reviews, images etc. [http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/motley/prodham.htm] (Jan. 2002)
Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, 1964-95

A time "out of joint":
Peter Zadek's Hamlet at the Berlin Schaubühne" By Stefan Steinberg September 1999 [http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/haml-s30.shtml]

Yu, Shiao-Ling.
Shakespeare on the Chinese Stage: Two Adaptations of Hamlet (1999). Compares two productions of Hamlet, one from China, one from Taiwan. Also discusses how appropriation or misappropriation of Shakespeare made his play more accessible to the Chinese and Taiwanese audience. [http://www.orst.edu/dept/foreign_lang/chinese/yu/hamlet.html] (March 2002)

Heavy Metal Hamlet - Bard in the Bush. dir. Jacqui Carroll, Brisbane 1999. [http://www.bigvolcano.com.au/custom/teahouse/frank/hamlet.htm] (Jan. 2002)

Block, Giles.
London, Globe 2000 reviews. [http://www.albemarle-london.com/g-hamlet.html]

Brook, Peter (dir.) Hamlet 2000. reviews and interviews, articles etc. [http://members.aol.com/xtralinks/pb/hamletal.htm] (Jan. 2002)

Fritsch, Herbert.
Hamlet-x, Internet-Projekt 2001 mit der Berliner Volksbühne. 111 Szenen. [http://www.hamlet-x.de/]

Hamlet, Horla, dir. Alistair Green. Rose and Crown,
London 2001. review [http://www.horla.co.uk/productions/hamlet/hamlet_review.htm] (Jan. 2002)

Hamlet, dir. John Caird,
London Royal National Theatre 2001 Hamlet: Simon Russell Beale. Reviews, production notes [http://www.albemarle-london.com/rnt-hamlet.html] (Jan. 2002)

Hamlet, RSC 2001/2. dir. Steven Pimlott. Hamlet: Sam West. [http://www.albemarle-london.com/rsc-hamlet.html] (May 2002).
A.C. Grayling,
Hamlet, RSC 2001/2 [http://www.onlinereviewlondon.com/hamlet.html] (June 2002)
Lizzie Loveridge.
Hamlet, RSC 2001/2 [http://www.curtainup.com/hamlet-rsc.html] (June 2002)


Schlingensief, Christoph:
Hamlet mit Neonazis in Zürich. [http://www.naziline.com/campaign/index_segafredo.html]
Integration project for right-wing extremists (webpage in English and German)

Zwischen Sein und Nichtsein: Warum Theater politisch und Politik ein Theater ist. Christoph Schlingensief zur Zürcher Theaterdebatte, WoZ, 16.5. 2002 [http://www.woz.ch/WoZHomepage/20j02/theater20j02.html]

Hamlet, dir. Stefan Bachmann:
Theater Basel 2002 [http://www.theater-basel.ch/spielplan/stueckinfo.cfm?s_nr=954] (Jan. 2002)

Egerton, Judith. Hamlet , dir. Curt Toftland:
The Bard behind Bars (article about inmates of the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex playing Hamlet) May 2002 [http://www.louisvillescene.com/arts/performing/2002/p20020512bard.html] (May 2002)


film versions

Internet Movie Database [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William]
Shakespeare on Television: a bibliography of criticism [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]
Order videos at:
Poor Yorick [http://www.bardcentral.com/]
Hamlet on film [http://www.bardolatry.com/hamfilm.htm]

Dekker, Nicholas.
Celluloid Hamlets (compares four screen versions of the "to be or not to be" soliloquy: Olivier, Williamson, Gibson, Branagh) [http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/346/proj/dekker/interp.htm] (May 2002)

2000 -

Hamlet (USA, 2002) dir. Nicolas Sternann [http://www.imdb.com/Title?0327829]

101 Reykjavik.
(Finnland, 2001) dir. Kormakur, Baltasar. Finnish spin-off after novel by Hallgrimur Helgason. Review: [http://www.offoffoff.com/film/2001/101reykjavik.php3]

Onimusha: Warlords (2001) (Video Game) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0277934]

Hamlet (USA, 2000/I) (play) dir. Michael Almereyda. Ethan Hawke, Hamlet. modern adaptation. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0171359]
Almeryda, Michael:
"Hooking Up Hamlet" (article first published in New York Times [http://members.tripod.com/DailyTelegiraffe/ghostsofhamletspast.html] (Jan . 2002)
Review by Ann Thompson [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/thomrev.htm]

1990-99

Imagining Hamlet (USA, 1999; Documentary about introducing inner-city youths to the work of Shakespeare) Tsao, Andrew. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0219089]

Hamlet: For the Love of Ophelia (Germany, 1996) dir. Lo Cascio, Franco. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0124702]

Hamlet: For the Love of Ophelia (parts 1 and 2). Erotic films. dir. Damiano, Luca [http://www.adultmoviedatabase.com/cgi-bin/detail.asp?ProductID=31449]
Review: [http://www.flakmag.com/rejected/hamlet.html] (Nov. 2001)

Fuck Hamlet (Germany, 1996) dir. Cheol-Mean Whang. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0216762], script

A Midwinter's Tale / In the Bleak Midwinter. dir. Kenneth Branagh. 1995. Film. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0113403]

Green Eggs and Hamlet. (USA 1995) vid. 77 Min. The Dane done Dr. Seuss style. (Poor Yorick)

The Last Action Hero. Dir. John McTiernan. 1993. Film. (Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Hamlet...) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0107362]

Hamlet (1992) dir. Natalya Orlova (Russia, Animation 1992) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0104387]

Hamlet. (UK, 1992) dir. Kenneth Branagh. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116477]
Hatchuel, Sarah.
Leading the Gaze: From Showing to Telling in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Hamlet (EMLS 6.1) [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/hatchbra.htm]
Lehmann, Courtney.
Making Mother Matter: Repression, Revision, and the Stakes of 'Reading Psychoanalysis Into' Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (EMLS 6.1.)[http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/lehmhaml.htm]
Sheppard, Philippa.
"The Castle of Elsinore: Gothic Aspects of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet".
Shakespeare Bulletin, vol. 19, no. 3, summer 2001. [http://www.shakespeare-bulletin.org/issues/summer01/article-sheppard.html] (Febr. 2002)
Hamlet (audio excerpt from Branagh film) Hamlet: Kenneth Branagh, Ophelia: Kate Winslet, Claudius: Derek Jacobi, Lucianus: Rob Edwards, Polonius: Richard Briers, Gertrude: Julie Christie (to listen, click at scene picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Jan. 2002)

Discovering Hamlet (documentary, Branagh, USA 1990) Mark Olshaker [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0189484]

Hamlet (UK, USA, F; Spain 1990) Franco Zeffirelli (With Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, Helena Bonham Carter; music: Ennio Morricone) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0099726]
Hamlet (audio excerpt from Zeffirelli film) Gertrude: Glenn Close, Laertes: Nathaniel Parker (to listen, click at scene picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Jan. 2002)
Morricone, Ennio. Hamlet film music. [http://www.morricone.de/cdinhalt_hamlet.htm] (May 2002)

Hamlet (USA 1990) dir. Kevin Kline: Joseph Papp's 1990 production [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0099727]

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (UK, USA 1990) dir. Tom Stoppard [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100519]

1980- 89

Gamlet (Russia, 1989) dir. Gleb Panfilov [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0175641]

Hamlet (UK, 1987) dir. Roland Kenyon, Rod MacDonald [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093138]

Hamlet liikemaailmassa / Hamlet goes Business (Finnland, 1987) dir. Aki Kaurismäki [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093139]

Den Tragiska Historien om Hamlet, Prinz ar Danmark, (Sweden 1984) (TV) dir. Ragnar Lyth [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0088293]

Strange Brew (USA, 1983) comedy, dir. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086373]

To Be or Not to Be (USA, 1983) dir. Johnson, Alan (with Mel Brooks) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086450]

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980) (BBC, TV) dir. Rodney Bennett. With: Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080835]

1970-79

Hamlet (UK, 1976) dir. Celestino Coronado (with Anthony and David Meyer, Helen Mirren) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0074603]

Hamlet (Canada, 1973) dir. Bonnière, René and Bush Stephen [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0070147]
Hamlet (UK, USA 1972) (TV) dir. Giles, David [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068671]

Herança (Brazil, 1970) dir. Candeias, Ozualdo Ribeira [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0065831]

Hamlet (UK, 1970) (TV) dir. Wood, Peter (Richard Chamberlain, John Gielgud) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0065811]

1960-69

Hamlet (UK, 1969) dir. Richardson, Tony (with Nicol Williamson, Anthony Hopkins, Marianne Faithful) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0064400]

Quella sporca storia nel west / Johnny Hamlet / That Dirty Story of the West (western, Italy, 1968) dir. Castellari, Enzo G. (with Andrea Giordana, Gabriella Grimaldi) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0063479 ]
Star Trek #13: The Conscienc e of the King (w. William Shatner) Plot based on Hamlet, w. an "Arcturian Macbeth" with faux Shakespearean dialog (Poor Yorick)

Hamile (Ghana, 1964) dir. Bishop, Terry. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058174]

Hamlet / Hamlet at Elsinore (UK, 1964) (TV) dir. Saville, Philip (with Christopher Plummer, Robert Shaw, Michael Caine) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058176]

Hamlet (USA, 1964) dir. Papp, Joseph [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058177 ]

Gamlet (USSR, 1964) dir. Kozintsev, Grigori. Music: Shostakovich [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058126]
Review by Eleanore Rowe. [http://hamlet.emulous.com/film/koz/article.htm] (March 2002)

Hamlet (USA; 1964) dir. Gielgud, John and Bill Colleran (with Richard Burton, Linda Marsh) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058175]; DVD version Richard Burton as Hamlet, directed by Sir John Gielgud, full version of a life performance at New York 1964. (May 2002)

Ophélia (France, 1962) (play Hamlet) dir. Claude Chabrol [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0056312]

Hamlet (Germany, 1960) (TV) dir. Wirth, Franz Peter (with Maximilian Schell) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0053888]

The Bad Sleep Well / Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (Japan, 1960) dir. Kurosawa, Akira. (free adaptation) Review by Gary Morris: [http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue06/reviews/kurosawa.htm]

1950-59

Der Rest ist Schweigen / The Rest is Silence. (W.Germany, 1959) dir. Käutner, Helmut. (modernised version) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0053217]
Hamlet (UK, USA, 1959) (TV) dir. Benthall, Michael and Nelson, Ralph (with John Neville) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0052874]
Hamlet (Sweden, 1955) (TV) dir. Sjöberg, Alf [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0048144]
Hamlet (India, 1954) dir. Sahu, Kishore [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0048144]
Hamlet (UK, 1953) (TV) with Maurice Evans [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0195766]
Io, Amleto (Italy, 1952) dir. Simonelli, Giorgio (with Rossana Podestà and Erminio Macario [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0044752]

1940-49

Hamlet (UK, 1948) dir. Olivier, Laurence [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0040416] Dirk Jasper Filmlexikon
Hamlet (UK, 1947) (TV) dir. Adams, Basil (with John Byron, Muriel Pavlow, Margret Rawlings) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0039445]
Strange Illusion (1945) dir. Edward G. Ulmer. (film noir version: A young man's nightmares seem to be coming true when his father dies and his mother falls for a con-man.) [http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/product/film_info/1,3699,2358664,00.html] imbd: [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0038126
To Be or Not to Be comedy, (USA, 1942) dir. Lubitsch, Ernst [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0035446]
Khoon Ka Khoon (India, 1935) dir. Sohrab, Modi [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0026566]

1900-39

Hamlet - Act I: Scene V (USA, 1933) Barrymore, John [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0210724]

Hamlet silent m. (Germany, 1921) dir. Gade, Sven and Schall, Heinz (with Asta Nielsen as Hamlet) 123 min. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0012249]
Asta Nielson:
video clips [http://shea.mit.edu/ramparts/commentaryguides/hamlet_a_woman/female_gaze.htm] (March 2002)

Hamlet silent m. (Italy, 1917) dir. Rodolfi, Eleuterio [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0008040]
Hamlet silent m. (Italy, 1914) dir. Ambrosi, Arturo [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0004049]
Hamlet silent m. (UK, 1913) dir. Plumb, Hay. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0002922]
Hamlet silent m. (UK, 1912) dir. Raymond, Charles [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0205998]
Amleto silent m. (Italy, 1910) dir. Caserini, Mario [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0001112]
Hamlet silent m. (Denmark, 1910) dir. Blom, August [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0001240]
Hamlet silent m. (UK, 1910) dir. Barker, William G. B. (with Charles Raymond) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0001241]
Hamlet silent m. (France, 1910) dir. Desfontaines, Henri [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0001242]
Hamlet silent m. (France, 1909) Jean Mounet-Sully [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000886]
Amleto silent m. (Italy, 1908) dir. ? [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000630 ]
Amleto silent m. (Italy, 1908) dir. Comerio, Luca [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000631]
Hamlet silent m. (France, 1907) dir. Méliès, Georges [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000598]
Hamlet silent m. (France, 1900) dir. Maurice, Clément (Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000306]

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