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William SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet (DVD) [Region 2 & 4]
BBC 2009 ~Directed by Gregory Doran~
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DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 2 & Region 4 DVD with duration of 182 minutes. Rated PG

Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company features David Tennant's thrilling, mercurial, and often very funny stars central performance.

This visually sumptuous screen version, filmed on location with the original stage cast, captures the atmosphere and excitement of the critically acclaimed production. Patrick Stewart won an Olivier Award for his performance as Claudius, King of Denmark. Penny Downie plays Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, and Mariah Gales is the tragic Ophelia. Edward Bennett is Ophelia's avenging brother Laertes, and Oliver Ford Davies takes the role of their father Polonius.

Tennant won a great deal of praise and accolades for his role in the Shakespeare play with The Guardian referring to the Scot as, 'the greatest Hamlet of his generation'.

The King of Denmark is dead and has been succeeded by his brother Claudius. Claudius has also married Gertrude, the widowed Queen. Hamlet, Gertrude's son, is already distressed by his father's death and the hasty remarriage and when his father's ghost appears to tell him that he had been murdered by Claudius, Hamlet vows revenge. To cover his intentions, he feigns madness. Polonius, the Lord Chamberlain, whose daughter Ophelia is all but betrothed to Hamlet, believes that his madness is caused by repressed love and sets a trap for them. Spied on by Polonius and Claudius, Hamlet encounters Ophelia and violently rejects her.

Region 4 DVDs can played in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Oceania, and South America (except French Guiana).



ISBN: 5051561031304 [Stock #7957]
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