Hamlet (2009 film)

Hamlet
DVD cover for Hamlet
Genre	Drama
Written by	William Shakespeare
Directed by	Gregory Doran
Starring	David Tennant Patrick Stewart
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
Production
Running time	180 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC Two
Original release	26 December 2009 (2009-12-26)
External links
Website

Hamlet is a 2009 television film adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2008 modern-dress stage production of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, aired on BBC Two on 26 December 2009. It was broadcast by PBS in the United States on 28 April 2010.

Directed by Gregory Doran, it features the original stage cast of David Tennant in the title role of Prince Hamlet, Patrick Stewart as King Claudius and the ghost of Hamlet's father, Penny Downie as Queen Gertrude, Mariah Gale as Ophelia, Edward Bennett as Laertes, Oliver Ford Davies as Polonius, and Peter de Jersey as Horatio.

Production

The production was filmed with a single-camera setup, using the pioneering RED One camera technology.^[1]

Cast

Prince Hamlet — David Tennant
King Claudius / King Hamlet — Patrick Stewart
Queen Gertrude — Penny Downie
Ophelia — Mariah Gale
Horatio — Peter de Jersey
Laertes — Edward Bennett
Polonius — Oliver Ford Davies
Rosencrantz / Second Gravedigger — Sam Alexander
Guildenstern — Tom Davey
Gravedigger — Mark Hadfield
Player King — John Woodvine
Osric / Player Queen — Ryan Gage
Dumbshow King — Samuel Dutton
Dumbshow Queen / Priest — Jim Hooper
Reynaldo / Dumbshow Poisoner — David Ajala
Marcellus — Keith Osborn
Barnardo — Ewen Cummins
Francisco / Fortinbras — Robert Curtis
Voltemand — Roderick Smith
Cornelia — Andrea Harris
Lucianus — Ricky Champ
Lady-in-waiting — Riann Steele
Lady-in-waiting — Zoe Thorne

DVD release

The film was released by 2 Entertain in the United Kingdom and Ireland on DVD on 4 January 2010 and on Blu-ray on 19 April 2010 and on DVD and Blu-ray on 4 May 2010 in the United States and Canada.

References

↑ http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6959552.ece

External links

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Characters

Soliloquies

Words and phrases

Terminology

Influence

Performances

Moscow Art Theatre (1911–1912)
Richard Burton (1964)

On screen

Adaptations

Films	The Rest Is Silence (1959) The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Ophelia (1963) Johnny Hamlet (1968) One Hamlet Less (1973) The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet (1977) Strange Brew (1983) Hamlet Goes Business (1987) The Lion King (1994) Let the Devil Wear Black (1999) Dating Hamlet (2002) The Banquet (2006) Karmayogi (2012) Haider (2014) Hamlet A.D.D. (2014)

Novels	Gertrude and Claudius (2000) Ophelia's Revenge (2003) The Dead Fathers Club (2006) Something Rotten (2007) Hamlet's Father (2008) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (2008)

Plays	Hamletmachine (1977) Dogg's Hamlet (1979) Fortinbras (1991) Hamlet (2005)

Musicals	Rockabye Hamlet (1973) The Lion King (1997)

Television	1959 Australian TV Production Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980) Hamlet (1992) Hamlet (2009)

Parody

Songs

"My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone" (16th century)
"Pull Me Under" (1992)
"Song for Athene" (1997)

Opera/Classical

Hamlet (Thomas)
Amleto (Faccio)
Hamlet (Tchaikovsky)
Tristia (Berlioz)
Die Hamletmaschine (Rihm)

Story within a story

Films	To Be or Not to Be (1942) Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1973) To Be or Not to Be (1983) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Renaissance Man (1994) In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) Hamlet 2 (2008) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009) Three Days (2012)

Plays	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) Stage Blood (1974) I Hate Hamlet (1991) To Be or Not to Be (2008)

Novels	Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) Theatre of War (1994) "The Undiscovered" (1997) The Shakespeare Stealer (1998) Interred with Their Bones (2007)

Television	"The Producer" (1966) Slings & Arrows (2003)

Art

Ophelia
Affe mit Schädel

Video game

Last Action Hero (1993)
Hamlet (2010)

Intertextuality

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