Alis Wyn Davies’s emo Ophelia thrashes furiously on a guitar.įrances Barber’s silky, sleekly self-regarding Polonius offers light relief, and Ashley D Gayle’s impassioned Laertes shines. Jenny Seagrove is a stiff, German-accented Gertrude with a distracting Brunnhilde coiffure that her son rips off in the closet scene – one of three hair-related flourishes in a staging oddly fixated with them. Francesca Annis’s ghost, rising from the floor wearing a fencing mask, is ludicrously Halloweenish. 1870 Written by William Shakespeare Characters Hamlet Claudius Gertrude Polonius Original language Early Modern English Genre Shakespearean tragedy Setting Denmark The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 15. Melodramatic gestures are ramped up by Adam Cork’s Hammer Horror sound design. Hamlet Hamlet portrayed by the actor Edwin Booth, c. HAMLET son to the late, and nephew to the present king. Sir Ian McKellen last played Hamlet 50 years ago (Photo: Gareth Cattermole/Getty) William Shakespeare, 'Cast of Characters,' Hamlet, Lit2Go Edition, (0), accessed November 26, 2021. It’s an uneven portrayal to say the least, yet watchable. 2000 Hamlet, americký film, který je zasazen do moderní doby a pedlohou se jen mírn inspiroval. Elsewhere, he lapses into a mellifluous delivery that serves the poetry rather better than the character. Reie: Kenneth Branagh, hrají: Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet), Richard Attenborough, Kate Winslet (Ofélie), Gérard Depardieu, Timothy Spall, Robin Williams. His friendship with Ben Allen’s Horatio is touching, and there’s an intriguing flicker of homoeroticism in his horseplay with Lee Knight’s Rosencrantz.